RFC 5601, "Pseudowire (PW) Management Information Base (MIB)", July 2009

Errata ID: 1864
Status: Rejected
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Alfred Hoenes
Date Reported: 2009-09-09
Rejected by: Stewart Bryant
Date Rejected: 2012-02-21

Section 12, pg.40 says:

[[ 2nd para of DESCRIPTION clause for pwIndexMappingEntry OBJECT-TYPE: ]]

           Implementers need to be aware that if the value of
|          the pwIndexMappingPeerAddr (an OID) has more than
|          113 sub-identifiers, then OIDs of column instances
           in this table will have more than 128 sub-identifiers
           and cannot be accessed using SNMPv1, SNMPv2c, or SNMPv3."

It should say:

           Implementers need to be aware that if the value of
|          the pwIndexMappingPeerAddr corresponds to more than
|          113 sub-identifiers, then OIDs of column instances
           in this table will have more than 128 sub-identifiers
           and cannot be accessed using SNMPv1, SNMPv2c, or SNMPv3."

Notes:

Rationale: Clarification of potentially misleading text:
pwIndexMappingPeerAddr is *not* an OID by itself, it is
transformed into an OID when used as an index in the SMI.
An alternate replacement text might be:

Implementers need to be aware that if the value of
| the pwIndexMappingPeerAddr has a size of more than
| 112 octets, then OIDs of column instances
in this table will have more than 128 sub-identifiers
and cannot be accessed using SNMPv1, SNMPv2c, or SNMPv3."
--VERIFIER NOTES--
The original text is correct and easily understood by a MIB experts.

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