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Re: [ippm] comments on draft-ietf-ippm-reporting-mib-04.txt

Randy Presuhn <randy_presuhn@mindspring.com> Thu, 13 November 2003 16:26 UTC

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Hi -

> From: Andy Bierman <abierman@cisco.com>
> Sent: Nov 13, 2003 10:02 AM
> To: ippm@ietf.org
> Subject: [ippm] comments on draft-ietf-ippm-reporting-mib-04.txt
...
> 5. sec. 4.1.4)   GMTTimeStamp 
>
> Why is it important to start the timestamp from 2000
> instead of 1900?  This is extra work since implementations
> are likely to support the standard "seconds since 1900"
> format, not this new format.
...

A thirty-two bit count of seconds since 1900 will soon wrap.
No comment on the other merits / demerits of this TC.

Randy

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