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Re: [IETFMIBS] Display of InetAutonomousSystemNumber
The right thing to do would be to write an Errata request to the RFC
Editor relative to RFC4001, so that the issue is documented as an errata
and archived and remembered by the time when the RFC will be revised.
Dan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ietfmibs-bounces at ietf.org
> [mailto:ietfmibs-bounces at ietf.org] On Behalf Of Juergen Schoenwaelder
> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 5:28 AM
> To: Jeffrey Haas
> Cc: ietfmibs at ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [IETFMIBS] Display of InetAutonomousSystemNumber
>
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 05:21:24PM -0400, Jeffrey Haas wrote:
>
> > InetAutonomousSystemNumber is defined in the
> INET-ADDRESS-MIB. It has
> > no display hint and a base type of Unsigned32.
> >
> >
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-michaelson-4byte-as-represen
> > tation-05.txt proposes representing 4 byte AS numbers in a <top
> > half>.<bottom half> format among others.
> >
> > Given that the base type is Unsigned32 rather than OCTET-STRING, in
> > order to provide a display hint that would cover this format, we'd
> > need a display hint that can effectively do math. We don't
> have one.
>
> The authors of the SMIv2 and the authors of the
> INET-ADDRESS-MIB simply did not anticipate this (but we did
> anticipate that there will be 32-bit AS numbers - at least
> something ;-).
>
> It might be possible to write down in the DESCRIPTION clause
> how this number is to be formatted and then tools will either
> come with special code to get this right or they will fall
> back to the default of showing a number. A more fancy
> solution would require to update the
> SMIv2 and I have some doubt that this will find much support
> (and even then implementations would need to be updated; so
> this does not buy you much in terms of actual deployment).
>
> So I think the way to go is to add text to the
> INET-ADDRESS-MIB how this value should be rendered once a
> decision on the format has been taken and the
> INET-ADDRESS-MIB is getting revised.
>
> /js
>
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