PMP> prtAlertIndex as defined in draft-ietf-printmib-mib-info-04.txt
Mike Thatcher
mike at peer.com
Tue Jun 1 15:09:25 EDT 1999
Ira McDonald wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> I agree that the current I-D breaks SMI, strictly speaking, BUT
> any future I-D MUST be backward compatible with RFC 1759
> 'over-the-wire'. Removing the (redundant) index object from
> the trap binding is NOT backward compatible. It's note
> the IETF's SMI rules that are paramount here. It's the
> PWG's commitment to backward compatible extensions to
> RFC 1759 only in Printer MIB v2.
>
> Cheers,
> - Ira McDonald
And now you are making things more difficult for compiler writers
because the mib should not compile.
Mike
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