[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Adding PhysicalIndex/PhysicalIndexOrZero to guidelines Appendix D
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 05:23:40PM -0700, C. M. Heard wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Jul 2003, C. M. Heard wrote:
> > On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Juergen Schoenwaelder wrote:
> > JS> l) I suggest that we add PhysicalIndex and PhysicalIndexOrZero
> > JS> to the TCs listed in Appendix D.
> >
> > Can you tell me what MIB module these appear in, and which RFC I
> > should reference?
>
> If there was a response to this question I missed it so I did my own
> legwork.
>
> Both of these TCs reside in the ENTITY-MIB.
>
> PhysicalIndex first appeared in the initial version of the MIB
> module in RFC 2037; the definition is unchanged (apart from an
> editorial clarification) in the most recently published ENTITY-MIB
> revision in RFC 2737; and the most recent definition, which is in
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-entmib-v3-01.txt,
> changes the base type from INTEGER (1..2147483647) to Integer32
> (1..2147483647).
>
> PhysicalIndexOrZero, on the other hand, appears only in the draft
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-entmib-v3-01.txt, and
> if I add it I will have a normative reference to a document that is
> not yet approved for publication (although it is due for WG last
> call soon).
>
> Because of the normative reference problem, and because the only
> places other than the ENTITY-MIB where these TCs are used are RFC
> 2613 (SMON), RFC 2922 (PTOPO-MIB), and RFC 3433 (ENTITY-SENSOR-MIB),
> I am VERY reluctant to make these additions to the list of "Commonly
> Used Textual Conventions" in Appendix D. Can we do without them?
I believe that these two TCs will play the same role as InterfaceIndex
and InterfaceIndexOrZero for physical components. But the world won't
stop if we not include them - we only make it more difficult for people
to find them.
BTW, my understanding is that the revision is currently in WG last call.
/js
--
Juergen Schoenwaelder International University Bremen
<http://www.eecs.iu-bremen.de/> P.O. Box 750 561, 28725 Bremen, Germany