Overview of Issues for SMIng Design
This list of issues should be regarded as a kind of brainstorming checkpoint. Single issues do not represent final design decisions as long as they are not accepted. Feel free to send further issues and ideas to <strauss@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> .
#1 MODULE-IDENTITY registration (accepted)
#2 NOTIFICATION-TYPE registration (rejected)
#3 MODULE-COMPLIANCE registration (rejected)
#4 AGENT-CAPABILITIES registration (rejected)
#5 Forward references (accepted)
#6 Separation of OBJECT-GROUP and NOTIFICATION-GROUP (accepted)
#7 Use of ASN.1 as a base syntax language (accepted)
#8 Distinguish classes of SMI problems (accepted)
#9 Preserve compatibility (accepted)
#10 Separating definitions and conformance statement (rejected)
#11 Prose references on old style SMI (accepted)
#12 Relationships between tables (accepted)
#13 Discontinuity indicators (discussed)
#14 UNITS in TCs (accepted)
#15 The concept of modules (rejected)
#16 Macros not compilable as ASN.1 (accepted)
#17 BNF definition (accepted)
#18 Programmer friendly terminology (accepted)
#19 Duplications and redundancy (accepted)
#20 Fully qualified names (accepted)
#21 SMIv2/SMIng convertibility (accepted)
#22 Parser efficiency (accepted)
#23 Definition defaults (accepted)
#24 Separate type and object definitions (rejected)
#25 Object type relationships (rejected)
#26 Independence from SMI (accepted)
#27 No implicit module dependencies (discussed)
#28 Complete set of base data types (accepted)
#29 Implicit OBJECT-GROUP membership (rejected)
#30 Avoid problems when commenting-out paragraphs (accepted)
#31 Optional varbinds in notifications (rejected)
#32 SMIng should declare a strict glossary (accepted)
#33 Avoid export of definitions (discussed)
#34 SMIng extensibility (Annotations) (discussed)
#35 Enforce module sections (discussed)
#36 Notification severity levels (discussed)
#37 Simple structure of all SMIng constructs (discussed)
#38 Emacs mode (accepted)
#39 Readable date format (accepted)
#40 Well defined string contents (accepted)
#41 Case of keywords and types (accepted)
#42 Hex and bin strings (accepted)
#43 SMIv2 elements concerning encoding (discussed)
#44 Notation of object identifiers (discussed)
#45 Order and nesting of definitions according to the OID tree (discussed)
#46 Optional subtyping by keywords (rejected)
#47 Module blocks in compliance statements (accepted)
#48 LAST-UPDATED (accepted)
#49 Floating point types (discussed)
#50 Table row creation (accepted)
#51 Implicit definition of table rows (rejected)
#52 Non-imported descriptors in MODULE-COMPLIANCE statement (accepted)
#53 Keywords vs. Identifiers (accepted)
#54 Descriptions for all definitions (submitted)
© Frank Strauß, TU Braunschweig, last updated 07-05-1999 16:48:10 by Frank Strauss <strauss@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>