Subject: RFC 3970

From: Alfred Hönes <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 10:53:13 +0100 (MEZ)

Hello,

reading the recently published RFC 3970 authored by you
I found some unfortunate textual issues on page 16:

The DESCRIPTION clauses of
    -  teTunnelOctects and teTunnelLPOctects
    -  teTunnelPackets and teTunnelLPPackets
are pairwise identical, respectively.

There is no precise description of the precise meaning of
these  "teTunnelLPxxx"  objects.
Admittedly, one might guess from the SYNTAX clauses of these
objects that "LP" stands for 'lower part' -- meaning that the
value of a "teTunnelLPOctets" object should always equal the
value of the corresponding "teTunnelOctets" object MODULO 2^32
(and similarly for the "...Packets" objects), but this is not
stated in the text.

Furthermore, unfortunately the naming of these objects does
not conform to the conventional naming style used in (almost)
all IETF standards track MIB modules with High Capacity
counters, e. g.  "xxxOctets"  and  "xxxHCOctets" .
The above interpretation would be more manifest if this
standard naming convention would have been followed.

Now, given that the naming of the objects cannot be changed
any more, it would certainly be useful to have a textual
clarification of these DESCRIPTIONs posted on the RFC Editor's
RFC-Errata web page.

Please comment.

Best Regards,
  Alfred Hönes.

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