RE: REMINDER: [Entmib] WG Last Call: Entity State MIB

"Wijnen, Bert (Bert)" <bwijnen@lucent.com> Sat, 07 February 2004 16:22 UTC

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From: "Wijnen, Bert (Bert)" <bwijnen@lucent.com>
To: 'Subrahmanya Hegde' <subrah@cisco.com>, Margaret Wasserman <margaret@thingmagic.com>
Cc: Sharon Chisholm <schishol@nortelnetworks.com>, entmib@ietf.org
Subject: RE: REMINDER: [Entmib] WG Last Call: Entity State MIB
Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 17:19:48 +0100
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> Following comments were sent on 1/11/2004: But it is not 
> taken care in the latest draft.
> Hoping some one is carrying as part of Editorial fix
> ******
> a Minor Suggestion:
> 
> Instead of having these OID definitions:
> 
> -- Notifications
> 
>   entStateTraps      OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { entityStateMIB 2 }
>   entStateTrapPrefix OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { entStateTraps 0 }
> 
> 
> We can have
> entStateNotifs OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { entityStateMIB 0 }
> 
> and use 'entStateNotifs' in the corresponding NOTIFICATION-TYPE
> 
> Reason we would like to avoid name 'Traps' is: Latest RFCs refer them
> as Notifications
> 
> Also, above OID tree structure will be inline with mib review 
> guidelines document: draft-ietf-ops-mib-review-guidelines-02.txt
> 

I agree with that ... and I would even say:

  entStateNotifications OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { entityStateMIB 0 }

Why make the descriptor more cryptic than needed?

Bert

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