Subject: RE: SnmpAdminString

From: Andrew Smith <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 14:33:33 -0700

Bert,

What is the intended meaning of "deprecate" for *new* implementors? 

My guess would be that new manager implementations would be well advised to
implement both the old and the new and that new agent implementations might
also do both if they want to work with existing deployed managers. Of course
if people assume this logic this then they can actually get away with
picking only one of them which sort of defeats the purpose of the new object
... I guess people have to make their own estimates of the half-life of
implementations to decide for themselves.

Andrew

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Bert Wijnen [mailto:[email-masked]]
> Sent:	Monday, July 05, 1999 9:17 AM
> To:	[email-masked]
> Cc:	[email-masked]
> Subject:	SnmpAdminString
> 
> Ref:  Your note of Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:07:02 -0700
> 
> Subject: Re:   SnmpAdminString
> 
> Andrew, "deprecate" means that they will probably be obsoleted
> in the future. For now, existing implementation can keep them
> and implement the new AdminStrings over time.....
> That was exactly what "deprecated" was meant to allow as opposed
> to "obsolete" them right away.
> 
> Bert
>