Re: 32-bit and 64-bit counters (fwd)

["C. M. Heard" <heard@pobox.com>]

Would anyone object to the guidelines document saying that it is no
longer necessary to have paired Counter32/Counter64 objects?  I
think that in fact is current policy.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 20:29:50 -0700 (PDT)
From: C. M. Heard <heard@pobox.com>
To: ietfmibs@ops.ietf.org
Subject: Re: 32-bit and 64-bit counters

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Dinakaran Joseph wrote:
> Thanks for this reference. What is confusing is that some MIBs, like the 
> one you mention above, use just Counter64 objects but there are other MIBs 
> which use a high capacity counter (Counter64) in addition to a regular 
> counter (Counter32) for the same object.
[ ... ]
> It might be good if the  "Guidelines for Authors and Reviewers of MIB 
> Documents"  can specify which of the above two options is recommended or 
> under what circumstances each of these options can be used.


OK, I'll put it on my list of things to do.

//cmh