Re: Anyone there?

Randy Presuhn <rpresuhn@dorothy.peer.com> Wed, 06 May 1998 19:08 UTC

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Date: Wed, 06 May 1998 11:54:01 -0700
From: Randy Presuhn <rpresuhn@dorothy.peer.com>
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Subject: Re: Anyone there?
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Hi - 

> Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 14:11:25 -0400
> From: maria@xedia.com (Maria Greene)
> To: "C. Adam Stolinski" <astolinski@worldnet.att.net>
> Cc: ups-mib@CS.UTK.EDU
> Subject: Re: Anyone there?
> 
> 
> >>>>> "C" == C Adam Stolinski <astolinski@worldnet.att.net> writes:
...
>     C> In the interest of common open-standard, I would not want any
>     C> changes in RFC 1628 that would create incompatibilities with
>     C> the PDC 1.0.
...

RFC 1628 has lots of DisplayString objects.  Would loosening this
constraint to allow UTF-8 for internationalization (SnmpAdminString) cause
problems?  The underlying syntax (OCTET STRING) and length constraints
would presumably be unchanged.

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