Subject: RE: Type definision issue in rfc2578

From: "Wijnen, Bert (Bert)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 16:45:20 +0200

I think:

SPPI (RFC3159) is NOT defining a MIB or a PIB but instead
defining a "new language" or an "update to the SMI language".
So that is a quite different thing than defining another
MIB or PIB Module.

Bert 

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> From: Wilson [mailto:[email-masked]]
> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 11:47 AM
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> Subject: Type definision issue in rfc2578
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> Hi, Can someone help in the following issue..
> 
> I have some doubt in the types defined in the RFC2578, and 
> its usage in
> RFC3159.
> 
> In RFC2578 the type defintion for ExtUTCTime is said not to 
> be imported by
> any MIB definition,
> but the RFC3159 is using the MIB definition convention to 
> define the frame
> work for PIB defintions, and it is importing the ExtUTCTime, 
> as per the
> RFC2578 which not to be allowed.
> 
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