Subject: Access control and logs (Was: Re: Question Inform Request)

From: Randy Presuhn <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 10:49:38 -0800 (PST)

Hi -

> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 09:26:36 -0800
> To: David Harrington <[email-masked]>,
>         Randy Presuhn <[email-masked]>
> From: Ramanathan Kavasseri <[email-masked]>
> Subject: Re: Question Inform Request
> Cc: [email-masked]
> References: <[email-masked]>
...
> User Foo has a named notification log called "Foolog", which contains
> instances of notifications "A" and "B". After several notifications are logged,
> Foo's notify view changes - now, notif "A" is still included, but notif "B"
> is excluded. What should the log do? Should it:
> 1. leave the existing log entries as is, but log only notif A going forward?
> 2. remove old notification entries which were i the log but are now excluded
> by the view?
> 3. leave the notif entries in the log, but filter each get PDU according to the
> notify-view of the user/comm string used in the get query for the log?
> 4. set a discontinuity object (which is not in the notif-log MIB today), 
> clear out the existing log, and log new entries?
> 5. In a discontinuityTable, set a discontinuity object, and the log entry from which the new view or filter entry took effect.
...

As a technical contributor, I agree with DavidH that #1 is
probably the most reasonable, and what one would expect from
the current specification.

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