On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 12:25:06AM +0000, Kent Watsen wrote: > > > > > Yes I agree. I don't recall but I also suspect the motivation was > > simple mapping to the MIB. (mapping a zero-length string to/from an > > optional leaf is straightforward). > > Is it too late to fix? No reason to hold onto SNMP compatibility, given > SNMP is now deprecated... >
I think SNMP is still STD 62. Doing merely cosmetic changes that break backwards compatibility is something the IETF should consider very carefully. Creating variants of existing definitions has costs - so there should be a strong benefit justifying the costs of introducing variants. /js -- Juergen Schoenwaelder Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH Phone: +49 421 200 3587 Campus Ring 1 | 28759 Bremen | Germany Fax: +49 421 200 3103 <https://www.jacobs-university.de/> _______________________________________________ netmod mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/netmod
