Subject: SCSP MIB: comment on server IDs

From: Hoylen Sue <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 14:37:22 +1000

These are some comments about <draft-wang-ion-scsp-mib-00.txt>:

1. Permitted lengths of server IDs are limited to 64 bytes.  Since the
   SCSP stores the length of serverIDs in one byte, the length
   of the server ID can be up to 255 octets.
  
2. The server IDs are represented by both a length INTEGER and an
   OCTET STRING.  The length is redundant, since it is implicit in
   the OCTET STRING.  Thus, things like:

     ScspLSEntry ::= SEQUENCE {
         scspLSIDLength                    INTEGER,
         scspLSID                          OCTET STRING(SIZE(0..64)),
         ...
   should be just
     ScspLSEntry ::= SEQUENCE {
         scspLSID                          OCTET STRING(SIZE(0..255)),
         ...
3. Perhaps this should be expressed as a textual conversion so that
   all usages of server IDs are consistent.

e.g.
       ScspServerID ::= TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
                       DISPLAY-HINT "1x"
                       STATUS  current
                       DESCRIPTION
                           "The SCSP identifier used by the network entity."
                      SYNTAX   OCTET STRING (SIZE(0..255))

Hoylen
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