Re: Evaluation: draft-ietf-atommib-rfc2558bis - Definitions of Managed Objects for the SONET/SDH Interface Type to Draft Standard

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>]

In message <200303282154.QAA20924@ietf.org>, IESG Secretary writes:
>
>Last Call to expire on: 2003-2-18
>
>	Please return the full line with your position.
>
>                    Yes    No-Objection  Discuss *  Abstain  

>Allison Mankin      [   ]     [ X ]       [   ]      [   ] 

This is probably due to my ignorance of MIB construction, but...

Some items say "Supports read-only access" or "just read-only access
may be supported," which I assume means "this variable may be 
implemented as read-only if you wish".  I'm not thrilled with the 
wording; I'm even more concerned that it's only specified for a few 
items.  Why, for example, isn't that true of ifConnectorPresent, which 
is described as "Set to true(1)"?



		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
		http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)