Subject: [imss] Re: DISCUSS on

From: Keith McCloghrie <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 14:50:50 -0800 (PST)

Bert/Margaret,

Tha answer is documented in section 5.5 of draft-ietf-imss-fc-nsm-mib-05.txt
which says:

   The objects defined in the t11NsRegTable represent the values
   registered with the Name Server.  The SNMP agent MUST report the
   actual values, even if they are incorrectly formatted.  This is the
   reason why, for example, the two objects which represent IP-
   addresses, t11NsNodeIpAddress and t11NsPortIpAddress, have the SYNTAX
   of OCTET STRING, so that they are able to represent invalid values
   (which could not be represented using InetAddressType and
   InetAddress).

Keith.

> Keith and WG,
> 
>    Margaret Wasserman:
>    Discuss:
>    [2006-01-05] Is there a reason why this MIB includes IP
>    addresses stored as 16-byte octet strings, rather than
>    as InetAddress objects? (e.g. t11NsRegNodeIpAddress)
> 
> I guess the answer is in 
>        REFERENCE
>           "ANSI INCITS 387-2004, Fibre Channel - Generic
>            Services-4 (FC-GS-4)"
> 
> Or you may have answered it in an earlier email.
> 
> But I am in the middle of the IESG conf call now, so won't get to
> go check it untill later. Maybe you have the answer ready 
> right from the top of your head.
> 
> Bert
> 

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