Re: section 4.6.2 of review-guidelines

["Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn@mindspring.com>]

Hi -

Although I think we're generally in agreement here....

> From: "Wijnen, Bert (Bert)" <bwijnen@lucent.com>
> To: "Harrie Hazewinkel" <harrie@lisanza.net>; "Mreview" <mreview@ops.ietf.org>
> Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2004 12:01 PM
> Subject: RE: section 4.6.2 of review-guidelines
>

> Sometimes it is indeed pretty clear that the text in the
> description clause is redundant. I have seen:
>
>    DESCRIPTION "...
>                 The default value is zero."
>    DEFVAL  { 0 }
>
> That seems pretty redundant to me. I always advise to take that
> text out. But (as stated by others), I do not think we need
> to force/mandate that. The above is indeed redundant, but there is
> no errro/flaw present. So let us not make it a CLR. Just recommend
> that they might as well take that text out of the DESCRIPTION clause
> (when it is indeed clearly redundant).
...

To me having "default value is zero" in the DESCRIPTION clause is
a stronger statement than "DEFVAL {0}".  The latter merely means
that zero is a value "which may be used at the discretion of an agent
when an object instance is created" [RFC 2578 clause 7.9].

Randy