Start at one. Zero is different, arguably not really a number (so several colleagues tell me) often used for special purposes such as 'don't know', 'not really', 'you tell me', 'tbd' etc etc
SNMP discourages it as an index which, while not directly relevant, has always felt right to me. (Ditto, en passant, the largest possible value, sometimes referred to as minus one, often used for special purposes etc etc) Tom Petch -----Original Message----- From: Chris Lonvick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 12 September 2003 16:56 Subject: Issue 5: First Message Number - Still needs review >Issue 5: First Message Number >http://www.employees.org/~lonvick/draft-ietf-syslog-sign-12.html#firs tmsg > >From Archive: >http://www.mail-archive.com/syslog-sec%40employees.org/msg01228.html > >Similar to Issue 4, should the value of "0" or "1" be used as the >lowest available value? Albert again suggests "0". Any disagreement >to that? > >STATUS: No direct responses to this issue but Anton Okmianski suggests > using "1" as the start for ordinal values. > >From the Archive (see point 4) >http://www.mail-archive.com/syslog-sec%40employees.org/msg01265.html > >
