Re: Last Call: 'Definitions of Managed Objects for Remote Ping, Traceroute, and Lookup Operations' to Proposed Standard

[Randy Presuhn <randy_presuhn at mindspring.com>]

Hi -

>From: "Tom.Petch" <sisyphus at dial.pipex.com>
>Sent: Feb 25, 2006 3:18 AM
>To: iesg <iesg at ietf.org>, ietf <ietf at ietf.org>
>Subject: Re: Last Call: 'Definitions of Managed Objects for Remote Ping,	Traceroute, and Lookup Operations' to Proposed Standard 
>
>I find the following unclear and would like to see it spelt out in detail
>
>"traceRouteHopsHopIndex
><snip>
>           MUST start at 1 and increase monotonically."
>
>Recent discussions on the ietf main list identified two meanings for
>'monotonically' - a sequence where each value is greater than or equal to its
>predecessor, or a sequence where each value is strictly greater than its
>predecessor - and I am unsure whether this means either or neither.
...

Since this is an INDEX in a MIB, reading it as "nondecreasing" makes no sense,
so I think there is no ambiguity.

Randy

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