Re: [Entmib] entPhysicalUris object wrap-up
Margaret Wasserman <margaret@thingmagic.com> Thu, 09 December 2004 13:36 UTC
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Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 08:23:55 -0500
To: Andy Bierman <abierman@cisco.com>
From: Margaret Wasserman <margaret@thingmagic.com>
Subject: Re: [Entmib] entPhysicalUris object wrap-up
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Hi All, >At 06:27 PM 12/8/2004, David T. Perkins wrote: >>4) This issue has been discussed many times. As was pointed out >> by Kaj in an earlier message, the approach choosen was the >> best solution and was acceptable to all on the WG mailing >> list. I don't believe that it is fair to undo what was >> hammered out over a long period of time where: >> a) it was demonstrated that use of an >> "alternative identification" scheme was needed >> and provided value at little cost. >> b) the scheme was neutral >> c) the scheme provided support for multiple competing >> alternative identifications (limited only by the size >> of the object) >> d) the cost to support a "non implementation" was next >> to nothing > >I missed all this on the mailing list. >I'll let the WG Chair decide, and I'll wait >on any edits. Kaj's document was never a WG document and, IMO, the Entity MIB WG did not make any official decisions about these objects before we decided to add them to the Entity MIB. I know that a few people used the Entity MIB mailing list to discuss Kaj's personal submission, and I thought that was fine. But, I didn't track the discussion closely enough to have a mental record of it, and no official consensus calls were made about it. Personally, I agree with Andy that it is a bit lame to have an undiscriminated, unformatted, loosely specified string in the middle of this MIB. How are applications supposed to know that this contains? Would it be possible to compare these strings? Use them as URLs? Or do anything with them besides just display them on a screen? I am not actually religious about this, though. So, if that's what the WG thinks is the best way to represent this object, so be it. Margaret _______________________________________________ Entmib mailing list Entmib@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/entmib
- [Entmib] entPhysicalUris object wrap-up Andy Bierman
- Re: [Entmib] entPhysicalUris object wrap-up Margaret Wasserman
- RE: [Entmib] entPhysicalUris object wrap-up Wijnen, Bert (Bert)
- Re: [Entmib] entPhysicalUris object wrap-up Juergen Schoenwaelder
- Re: [Entmib] entPhysicalUris object wrap-up David T. Perkins
- Re: [Entmib] entPhysicalUris object wrap-up Andy Bierman
- Re: [Entmib] entPhysicalUris object wrap-up David T. Perkins
- Re: [Entmib] entPhysicalUris object wrap-up Andy Bierman
- Re: [Entmib] entPhysicalUris object wrap-up Margaret Wasserman
- Re: [Entmib] entPhysicalUris object wrap-up Juergen Schoenwaelder
- Re: [Entmib] entPhysicalUris object wrap-up Kaj Tesink
- Re: [Entmib] entPhysicalUris object wrap-up Andy Bierman
- Re: [Entmib] entPhysicalUris object wrap-up Kaj Tesink
- RE: [Entmib] entPhysicalUris object wrap-up Kaj Tesink
- Re: [Entmib] entPhysicalUris object wrap-up Andy Bierman
- Re: [Entmib] entPhysicalUris object wrap-up Kaj Tesink
- Re: [Entmib] entPhysicalUris object wrap-up Kaj Tesink