Re: [Isms] d) was dublin isms meeting minutes

[Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder at jacobs-university.de>]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 12:29:00PM -0400, Ira McDonald wrote:
 
> The vast majority of uses of SnmpAdminString in IETF and private MIBs
> are for simple description objects that need to be internationalized - no
> normalization is needed - string comparisons would be a design flaw.

SnmpAdminStrings are used as identifiers in several places in SNMPv3
MIB modules and these strings are compared during the processing in
the elements of procedure. Are you saying SNMPv3's usage of UTF-8 is
flawed? Perhaps it is, but to be fair it must be noted that SNMPv3 was
done about 10 years ago and UTF-8 normalization was probably not that
well understood at that point in time.

If SNMPv3's usage of UTF-8 is flawed, someone should write up a
document explaining the issue and proposing ways to fix things and
then it can be discussed if and where in the IETF this work should be
done.  Looking at the current ISMS charter, I don't think ISMS is the
place to do this.

/js

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