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Re: Gen-ART review of draft-ietf-bfd-mib-17

Randy Presuhn <randy_presuhn@mindspring.com> Fri, 18 April 2014 02:48 UTC

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Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 19:47:55 -0700
From: Randy Presuhn <randy_presuhn@mindspring.com>
To: "Sam K. Aldrin" <aldrin.ietf@gmail.com>, "Nobo Akiya (nobo)" <nobo@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: Gen-ART review of draft-ietf-bfd-mib-17
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Hi -

>From: "Sam K. Aldrin" <aldrin.ietf@gmail.com>
>Sent: Apr 17, 2014 6:24 PM
...
>Subject: Re: Gen-ART review of draft-ietf-bfd-mib-17
...
>My only concern is with the new extension MIB's.
>If the base MIB (this MIB) has write access,
>future extension MIB's may be forced to support
>write-access.

And how, exactly, does the fact that a base MIB module
permits write access force extension MIB modules to
require (or even permit) write access?

It's perfectly reasonable SMI to define an AUGMENTS
table consisting entirely of read-only objects.

Randy

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