Support for XXX OID value

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

HI,

We talked about in the past how to support a
"temporary OID value" for use in I-Ds. Consider:

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    REVISION    "200604130000Z"  -- April 13, 2006
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    ::= { mib-2 XXX }
-- RFC Ed.: replace XXX with IANA-assigned number & remove this note

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In the above, the RFC editor notes were taken directly from
RFC 4181 ("Guidelines for Authors and Reviewers of MIB Documents").

Did we decide whether or not that there should be a
special value (such as the XXX above) that with a
command line switch would cause a MIB parser not
to generate an error message? For example,
  mymibparser MY-EXAMPLE-MIB
might generate error
E: f(MY-EXAMPLE-MIB), (74,21) Sub-Id for item "myExampleMIB"
    must be a "number" or "name(number)"

But, with command line option, say, "--type=ID", such as:
  mymibparser --type=ID MY-EXAMPLE-MIB
would not output an error message.

Regards,
/david t. perkins