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

["David T. Perkins" <dperkins@dsperkins.com>]

HI,

It's find with me as long as it will be possible for me to
update and submit the old I-D I did on adding support for
Counter64 in SNMPv1 as an informational RFC.

Regards,
/david t. perkins

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, C. M. Heard wrote:

> 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
> 
>