Re: [Isms] current naming agreement

[Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder at jacobs-university.de>]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 02:41:12AM -0700, Wes Hardaker wrote:
> >>>>> On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:39:05 +0200, Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder at jacobs-university.de> said:
> 
> JS> If the prefix is dropped by TSM, then I think all the "higher" layers
> JS> in the SNMP engine should never see/worry about the prefix. So it is
> JS> TSM's job to put the prefix back in place again for outgoing
> JS> notifications.
> 
> Well, except it's not the lower layers that actually care.  Really, the
> thing that cares the most is the VACM which is where we need it.  The
> "agent" is the one that needs the prefixed name since it can check the
> VACM for ssh:juergen vs dtls:juergen when the scalar is set to false
> regardless of whether it's checking the authorization of a SET or a INFORM.

But if I turn the 'drop magic prefixes' button on in TSM, I likely do
this because I do not want to distinguish between dtls:schoenw and
tls:schoenw, that is, I do not want to deal with this distinction in
VACM. So in this case, I would expect that TSM has to fill in the
right prefix, no?

/js

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