Rick Royston's MIB Comments

["Royston, Rick" <[e-mail]>]

  Here are my comments to the 1/4/94 MIB
  
  1.  Royston, not Roysten
  
  2.  mdmLineCarrierLossControl  - why not assign mdmLineCarrierLossTime a
      value of 0 and delete this object?
  
  3.  mdmLineCapabilities - what about V.25 bis, V.32 terbo ?  Also who is 
  the keeper of the protocol list?
  
  4.  mdmDTEActionOnDTROffToOn - if an object is defined for a DialNumber,
      it can be treated as other objects with a RAM copy and NVRAM 
  copy(ies). Then enableDial and establishConnection are the same.  I 
  suggest that they be replaced by DialmdmPhoneNumber(2) where 
  mdmPhoneNumber is the name of the preconfigured object
  
  5.  mdmDTEInactivityTimeOut - reference to start/stop switched, changed 
  to async dial
  
  6.  mdmAutoAnswerEnable - this object duplicated the function of 
      mdmRingsBeforeAnswer when its value is 0.  Delete ?
  
  7.  mdmCallProgressDetect - this object is a mess in current modems. I 
  wonder if an enumeration of EverthingInTheModem(5) is reasonable?
  
  8.  mdmResultCodeEnable - replace enable(1) with  enableNumeric and 
      enableVerbose.
  
  9.  mdmStoredDialString - should we define a max length.  I think we use 
  30 or 40.  Comments?
  
  10. mdmCCConnectFailReason - add text to state that not all devices can 
  or will return all of these possible values.  I have problems with this 
  object, but have no good solutions as of now.  Maybe we should minimize 
  this list?
  
  11. mdmCCErrorControlUsed - in description value '{0 0}' ?
  
  12. mdmStatsIncomingConnectionsRequest - rename to 
      mdmStatsIncomingConnectionsAccepted and change desc.
  
  13. mdmStatsIncomingAbnormalTerminations - how is this different from 
  failed connection requests.  All connections abnormally terminate by loss 
  of DCD, or some other means.
  
  14. mdmStatsOutgoingConnectionRequests - rename to 
      mdmStatsOutgoingConnectionsAccepted.
  
  15. mdmStatsRingNoAnswer - description ",but the call was not answered".  
  If the ring detect is separate, the DSP may be ill.
  
  16. mdmStatsSentDataFrames |Recieved DataFrames - line and NOT DTE 
  
  Please comment on my comments asap.  We need to get some concensus before
  Jan 31.
  
  Rick