Re: draft minutes from the sming interim:

[Dave Shield <D.T.Shield@csc.liv.ac.uk>]

>                                         a MIB writer may
> "accidentally" include a directive in a comment, and thus,
> the MIB module may run fine through most compilers, and then
> blowup on the compiler that interprets the comment as a directive!

Surely all that's needed at this stage, would be to decide on a
basic "directive comment" syntax, and define this as reserved?
Work on developing a set of standard directives could then go on
separately from the main task of defining the overall syntax.

The analogy that springs to mind is HTML comments  <!-- .... -->
and their use for server-parsed configuration  <!--#cmd .... ->
A similar technique could well be used here.

Dave