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RE: DateAndTimeOrNull

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-mreview@ops.ietf.org 
> [mailto:owner-mreview@ops.ietf.org]On Behalf Of 
> j.schoenwaelder@iu-bremen.de
> Sent: 01 March, 2005 7:55 PM
> To: Romascanu, Dan (Dan)
> Cc: Mreview (E-mail); Lior khermosh
> Subject: Re: DateAndTimeOrNull
> 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 07:23:45PM +0200, Romascanu, Dan (Dan) wrote:
> 
> > One of the MIB modules in the Ethernet Interfaces and Hub MIB WG 
> > needs to use a TC that extends DateAndTime TC to DateAndTimeOrNull. 
> > Beyond the RFC 2579 functionality, null would be filled in whenever 
> > a clock is not available to the agent to provide 
> DateAndTime information. 
> > 
> > We believe that there may be a broader usage for such a TC 
> beyond other WG. 
> > 
> > I found some traces of a previous discussion - did it ever 
> result in 
> > defining such a TC some place? 
> 
> DateAndTime just works fine. It has been used quite a bit in MIBs to
> represent a NULL value and a clarification on this has been posted
> after quite some discussion as an errata to RFC 2579 which legalizes
> the usage of a value which entirely consists of zeros as a NULL value.

Can you point us to this errata? Thanks, Dan

> 
> /js
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