Re: Floating points in MIBs

[Randy Presuhn <randy_presuhn@mindspring.com>]

Hi -

>From: Brian Haberman <brian@innovationslab.net>
>Sent: Jan 25, 2006 8:48 PM
>To: "Wijnen, Bert (Bert)" <bwijnen@lucent.com>
>Cc: "Mreview (E-mail)" <mreview@ops.ietf.org>
>Subject: Re: Floating points in MIBs
>
>Bert,
>
>The NTP MIB needs the ability to support double float values
>for several variables.  I will look at using David's suggestion
>of encoding them in ASCII unless someone else has other
>suggestions.
...

I'd slightly prefer an OCTET STRING containing the IEEE
binary.  ASCII representation of floats brings a lot of
subtle issues.  By going directly to the IEEE format, we
as MIB people could avoid having to worry about them.
But please don't consider this a strenuous objection.

Randy