Re: comments on draft-ietf-iplpdn-frmib-dte-04.txt

[Fred Baker <[e-mail]>]

At 3:20 PM 5/9/95, John Shriver wrote:
>The object:
>
>    frDlcmiState OBJECT-TYPE
>        SYNTAX INTEGER      {
>            noLmiConfigured (1),
>            lmiRev1         (2),
>            ansiT1_617_D    (3),  -- ANSI T1.617 Annex D
>            ansiT1_617_B    (4),  -- ANSI T1.617 Annex B
>            ccitt_933_A     (5)   -- CCITT Q933 Annex A
>        }
>        MAX-ACCESS   read-write
>        STATUS   current
>        DESCRIPTION
>           "This variable states which Data  Link  Connec-
>           tion Management scheme is active (and by impli-
>           cation, what DLCI it uses) on the  Frame  Relay
>           interface."
>       REFERENCE
>          "Draft American National Standard T1.617-1991"
>      ::= { frDlcmiEntry 2 }
>
>Is missing one value, in my reckoning.  ANSI T1.617a-1994 revises
>Annex D in an incompatible way.  (Thanks, ANSI!  The "element
>identifier" of "Link integrity verification information element" is
>changed from 0x19 to 0x03.)

What idiot did that? Did they do anything useful with the protocol (tell
you the Bc/Be/throughput values, perhaps) that would justify implementing
it?

>I'd say it should be revised to:
>
>    frDlcmiState OBJECT-TYPE
>        SYNTAX INTEGER      {
>            noLmiConfigured   (1),
>            lmiRev1           (2),  -- Interim LMI Revision 1
>            ansiT1_617_D      (3),  -- ANSI T1.617-1991 Annex D
>            ansiT1_617_B      (4),  -- ANSI T1.617-1991 Annex B
>            ccitt_933_A       (5),  -- CCITT Q933 Annex A
>            ansiT1_617_1994_D (6)   -- ANSI T1.617a-1994 Annex D
>        }
>        MAX-ACCESS   read-write
>        STATUS   current
>        DESCRIPTION
>           "This variable states which Data  Link  Connec-
>           tion Management scheme is active (and by impli-
>           cation, what DLCI it uses) on the  Frame  Relay
>           interface."
>        REFERENCE
>           "American National Standard T1.617-1991.
>           American National Standard T1.617a-1994.
>           ITU-T Recommendation Q.933 (03/93)."
>
>(Note also that many of the ANSI standard references are outdated.)

Caralyn, Charles, your opinions? Anyone else?

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