RE: Returning zero or empty string for unsupported objects

["Romascanu, Dan (Dan)" <dromasca@avaya.com>]

However, this section is relevant for the scope of RFC 2863. I would love to see a reference that applies to any agent implementation. Regards, Dan


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Randy Presuhn [mailto:randy_presuhn@mindspring.com]
> Sent: 07 November, 2003 12:48 AM
> To: Mreview (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: Returning zero or empty string for unsupported objects
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> Hi -
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> > From: "Wijnen, Bert (Bert)" <bwijnen@lucent.com>
> > To: "Mreview (E-mail)" <mreview@ops.ietf.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 1:43 PM
> > Subject: Returning zero or empty string for unsupported objects
> >
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> > I know that we tell people not to do so and instead
> > return a nuSuchInstance or noSuchObject.
> >
> > But I cannot find text in an RFC that says that such is bad.
> >
> > Anyone else who has a ptr?
> ...
> 
> I think RFC 2863 section 3.1.18 would do the trick.
> 
> Randy
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