Re: Re: [Entmib] CLEI Code URN draft

Hi -

> From: "Kaj Tesink" <kaj@research.telcordia.com>
> To: "Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn@mindspring.com>
> Cc: <entmib@ietf.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 12:10 PM
> Subject: Re: Re: [Entmib] CLEI Code URN draft
...
> >Wouldn't it be simpler to say that CLEI codes MUST be upper case?
>
>
> maybe so, but as i understand it T1.213 is case-insensitive,
> so restricting the URN name space to upper case seems inappropriate.
...

My concerns are mailnly with regard to the future if these things prove useful.
    1) consider what it would take to describe the behaviour of read-write
        objects that used these (after a write, would the value read be bit-for-bit
        identical, or merely fit the matching rules?)
    2) if they were used for indexing...

If their definition is already case insensitive, then I think we'd really be better
off deciding what their "canonical" representation should be for our purposes.
However, I freely admit this is a theoretical concern, and that if we don't imagine
these being used in other MIB object definitions, there's less need to worry
about it.

Randy

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