Re: FddiTime, and update to Path config table

[Nelson Ronkin <[e-mail]>]

>     The feedback I have received from some users after our implementation
>     of this MIB is that the numbers that show up on an NMS specified in
>     FddiTime are long and hard-to-decode.  Note, by the way, that the
>     defaults even in ANSI are specified in usecs, ms, or seconds!  Conversion
>     of units on the management station would be one way to address this
>     problem, but I haven't seen too many NMS's which do this.
> 
>     Anil
> 

This is what our NMS does, it performs the conversion from 80 nsec units
to milliseconds in the display, since that is more useful to the user.
It is the job of the NMS to display information the way the user wants to see
it.

The MIB definition should, I believe, be as consistent as possible with
the ANSI MIB, so I agree with Pablo that we should keep the 80 nsec units.

Different users may wish to see this in different formats, but the MIB
 definition can only present one of these. It should be the job of the NMS 
to provide this flexibility.