Hi - >From: "Tom.Petch" <sisyphus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Sent: Feb 25, 2006 3:18 AM >To: iesg <iesg@xxxxxxxx>, ietf <ietf@xxxxxxxx> >Subject: Re: Last Call: 'Definitions of Managed Objects for Remote Ping, Traceroute, and Lookup Operations' to Proposed Standard > >I find the following unclear and would like to see it spelt out in detail > >"traceRouteHopsHopIndex ><snip> > MUST start at 1 and increase monotonically." > >Recent discussions on the ietf main list identified two meanings for >'monotonically' - a sequence where each value is greater than or equal to its >predecessor, or a sequence where each value is strictly greater than its >predecessor - and I am unsure whether this means either or neither. ... Since this is an INDEX in a MIB, reading it as "nondecreasing" makes no sense, so I think there is no ambiguity. Randy _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf