> On Nov 17, 2016, at 12:27 PM, Robert Raszuk <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Job, > > If safe extending subcode 2 would be fine, but even if router does not crash > or choke are we sure that all NMS reporting tools will also take the new msg > size just fine ? > > It's clearly worth checking a few more implementations, but: - The notification PDU makes allowances for optional data. - If you get unexpected optional data, what are you going to do? Send a notification? :-) - If you crash, you have a much greater problem.
> If so or if we don't care I would say go for it. But if we are changing the > encoding now perhaps it would be better to issue 4486bis instead ... > > Making this work a -bis is one way to proceed if the discussed behavior makes sense. That said, it's perfectly fine to update a single sub-type in a standalone document that updates 4486. -- Jeff
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