Re: [OPSAWG] Fw: I-D Action:draft-presuhn-floats-00.txt

Hi Randy,

I like your idea very much.

For the PSAMP-MIB module we defined a TC called PsampFloat64 in exactly the
same way as you do it in your draft.

We received a comment to rename PsampFloat64 to Float64TC with the intention
to have it re-used by future MIB modules, similarly to Unsigned64TC defined
in the APPLICATION-MIB module. The problem with this approach is that it is
hard to find general purpose TCs spread over a number of very specific MIB
modules.

Collecting them in a MIB module that serves this purpose only seems to me
the preferable approach.

I support making this a WG item. And yes, it has to be standards track,
otherwise it would not be very useful.

I have some comments on the draft that I will post in a separate email.

    Juergen

On 03.12.10 01:54  "Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn@mindspring.com> wrote:

> Hi -
> 
> As a result of discussion on the MIB doctors' list, I've put together an
> internet draft with textual conventions for floating point numbers.  There
> is currently some work in progress, such as
> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ipfix-psamp-mib/
> which has a need for floats.  Rather than have a proliferation of
> module-specific flavors of floats scattered through IETF (and
> vendor) MIB modules, it would make sense to have
> a standardized (small) set of options.  This draft is a step in that
> direction. 
> 
> This probably should be standards-track, if we would like it to be used
> by standards-track documents needing floats.
> 
> Would this WG be interested in taking this mercifully brief draft
> as a WG item?
> 
> I believe it is very nearly ready for publication, given its very narrow
> scope.  The only issue I am aware of is that while it tries to cite the
> current version of the IEEE spec, the xml2rfc citation library only has
> a very ancient version.
> 
> Randy
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: <Internet-Drafts@ietf.org>
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>> Sent: Monday, November 29, 2010 2:45 PM
>> Subject: I-D Action:draft-presuhn-floats-00.txt
>> 
>> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
>> directories.
>> 
>> Title           : Textual Conventions for the Representation of
>> Floating-Point Numbers
>> Author(s)       : R. Presuhn
>> Filename        : draft-presuhn-floats-00.txt
>> Pages           : 7
>> Date            : 2010-11-29
>> 
>> This memo defines a Management Information Base (MIB) module
>> containing textual conventions (TCs) to represent floating-point
>> numbers.
>> 
>> A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
>> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-presuhn-floats-00.txt
>> 
>> Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at:
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Re: [OPSAWG] Fw: I-D Action:draft-presuhn-floats-00.txt

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