On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 03:26:25PM -0700, Anders Persson wrote:
 
> I was reading through RFC 4113 and one thing that is not clear to me is
> the expected behavior of udpEndpointInstance. In particular, is the
> instance persistent (i.e. does an endpoint have to be associated with a
> particular instance throughout its lifetime)?
> 
> My understanding of the "instance" object is just as a facility to allow 
> information from multiple identical endpoints to be extracted, and not 
> as a way of identifying endpoints. If that is the case, then I assume 
> there should no problem if the instance of a particular endpoint change 
> over time?

The udpEndpointInstance object is part of the INDEX. Since a row in
the udpEndpointTable represents a particular endpoint, I would say
this object like all other INDEX objects serves to "identify" an
endpoint.

/js

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Juergen Schoenwaelder               International University Bremen
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