PMP Mail Archive: RE: PMP> Posted Last Call draft of Port Mo

RE: PMP> Posted Last Call draft of Port Mon MIB (10 March 2005)

From: Wijnen, Bert (Bert) (bwijnen@lucent.com)
Date: Thu Mar 10 2005 - 11:46:33 EST

  • Next message: McDonald, Ira: "RE: PMP> Posted Last Call draft of Port Mon MIB (10 March 2005)"

    Not sure which level of SMICng you tried, but I get:

      C:\bwijnen\smicng\work>smicmfm wd-pmpportmib10-20050310_mib.mi2
      E: f(wd-pmpportmib10-20050310_mib.mi2), (12,18) Date/time(0503100000Z) must have
        a year greater than 89
    ** 1 error and 0 warnings in parsing

    Years (in LAST-UPDATE and REVISION clauses are 4 digits (yyyy)

    I also get:

      C:\bwijnen\smicng\work>smicng wd-pmpportmib10-20050310_mib.inc
      W: f(wd-pmpportmib10-20050310_mib.mi2), (43,21) The first revision should match
         the last update for MODULE-IDENTITY ppmMIB

       *** 0 errors and 1 warning in parsing

    And... in general, a REVISION clause is normally only present for each revision
    that was actually formally published. Not sure how it works in PMP organisation.
    In IETF, revisions in various Internte-Drafts will not have a separate REVISION
    clause, only revisions that are published as RFCs.

    I did a very quick browse.

    I wonder why you do not use SnmpAdminString (RFC3411) instead of defining your
    own TC.

    I see: ppmPortProtocolPortNumber and wonder if you not better use
           the InetPortNumber TC from RFC4001

    This:

      ppmPortSnmpCommunityName OBJECT-TYPE
        SYNTAX DisplayString (SIZE (0..255))
        MAX-ACCESS read-only
        STATUS current
        DESCRIPTION
            "The SNMP read community name, specified in US-ASCII, for access
            to the printer status information in IETF MIB-II (RFC 1213),
            IETF Host Resources MIB (RFC 1514/2790), and IETF Printer MIB
            (RFC 1759/3805) for this port.

            If this object is empty, then the SNMP read community name for
            this port MUST default to 'public'."
        REFERENCE
            "See: 'snmpCommunityName' in SNMP Community MIB (RFC 3584)."
        DEFVAL { ''H } -- no SNMP read community name
        ::= { ppmPortEntry 7 }

    seems pretty INSECURE, plus, a valid SNMP communityName is allowewd to
    contain non-ASCII characters. So I find this very questional stuff

    I am also worried somewhat by the use of all the DisplaySTring types
    (US NVT ASCII). Does not seem to be of current time anymore and
    certainly does not seem to be future proof to me

    Just my initial 2 cents

    Bert
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: pmp-owner@pwg.org [mailto:pmp-owner@pwg.org]On Behalf
    > Of McDonald,
    > Ira
    > Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 16:56
    > To: 'pmp@pwg.org'; 'pwg@pwg.org'
    > Subject: PMP> Posted Last Call draft of Port Mon MIB (10 March 2005)
    >
    >
    > Hi folks, Thursday (10
    > March 2005)
    >
    > Mike Fenelon converted the PWG Printer Port Monitor MIB to MS Word and
    > added PWG boilerplate for v1.0 - status of 'Stable' - now posted at:
    >
    > ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/pmp/wd/wd-pmpportmib10-20050310.doc
    > - MS Word document source
    >
    > ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/pmp/wd/wd-pmpportmib10-20050310.mib
    > - ASN.1 MIB source - SMIv2 format
    >
    > ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/pmp/wd/wd-pmpportmib10-20050310.pdf
    > - Acrobat PDF - PWG boilerplate, introduction, model, references
    >
    > This MIB compiles without warnings in both Epilogue Emissary
    > and SMICng.
    >
    > We will start a PWG Last Call on this document within the
    > next week, to
    > span the PWG face-to-face meeting in Tokyo in April and
    > finish during a
    > special PWG plenary telecon the following week.
    >
    > Cheers,
    > - Editors of PWG Printer Port Monitor MIB
    > o Mike Fenelon (Microsoft)
    > o Ivan Pavicevic (Microsoft)
    > o Ron Bergman (Ricoh)
    > o Ira McDonald (High North Inc)
    >
    > ----------------------------------------
    > [change log - to be deleted before Candidate Standard publication]
    >
    > 8 March 2005 (v1.0)
    > - Converted to official PWG working draft
    > - Expanded the background section
    >



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