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RE: [Bridge-mib] Re: FW: 802.1x and TimeTicks

"Ayers, Mike" <Mike_Ayers@bmc.com> Mon, 25 March 2002 16:27 UTC

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From: "Ayers, Mike" <Mike_Ayers@bmc.com>
To: "'stds-802-1@ieee.org'" <stds-802-1@ieee.org>, bridge-mib@ietf.org
Subject: RE: [Bridge-mib] Re: FW: 802.1x and TimeTicks
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 10:27:15 -0600
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> From: Les Bell [mailto:Les_Bell@eur.3com.com] 
> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 12:53 AM


> The intention for dot1xAuthSessionTime was to report it in 
> hundredths of
> seconds, as the TimeTicks TC says.  The description is wrong.
> 
> The question we have to ask now is:
> How do people think we should fix this bug?
> 
> Option 1:
>     Fix the description to say "hundredths of seconds".
> 
> Option 2:
>     Fix the syntax as Integer32 (I think IETF rules do not 
> permit this).

	They don't.

> Option 3:
>     Deprecate dot1xAuthSessionTime and
>         a) define a new item using TimeTicks, or
>         b) define a new item using Integer32.

	If the MIB has production field implementations, then (3) should be
chosen, else (1) will do nicely.


/|/|ike

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