[Syslog] Review of mib-11, part 3
"David Harrington" <ietfdbh@comcast.net> Thu, 07 December 2006 01:49 UTC
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Subject: [Syslog] Review of mib-11, part 3
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Hi, 1) The idnits checker reports the use of the old copyright and disclaimer boilerplates rather than the new copyright and disclaimer boilerplates. These need to be updated. 2) syslogEntityOperationsReference uses a lower case "should". Is it nto important for interoperability that this be done? If so, then this should be a "SHOULD". If not for interoperability, why are we saying it "should" be done? 3) I still have difficulty understanding why default parameters are listed in the MIB module. What is the use case that requires these objects in the MIB module? Who decides what the default values should be? Since they are read-write objects, I assume the purpose is to allow an NMS to set the default values they want the sender to use. What happens if there are multiple NMSs talking to the same sender? Then who decides? If each NMS gets to decide, than you need a table in which each row is "owned" by a particular NMS. I still don't see why this would be needed however. If the sender decides, and the objects exist only so the receivers can check and see what the sender will use for defaults, then why are the objects read-write? Once an NMS checks the defaults, what are they supposed to do with this information? I question whether this deserves to be in the MIB module at all, but if it kept, then at least the MIB module should include a description of why it is there and how it should be used. 4) RFCPROT is a reference in syslogDefaultTransportDomain; it probably shoul dbe shown as [RFCPROT] or the RFC editor may overlook it. David Harrington dharrington@huawei.com dbharrington@comcast.net ietfdbh@comcast.net _______________________________________________ Syslog mailing list Syslog@lists.ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/syslog
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