Hi - >From: Sam Hartman <hartmans-ietf@xxxxxxx> >Sent: Feb 25, 2006 10:29 AM >To: "Tom.Petch" <sisyphus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Cc: iesg <iesg@xxxxxxxx>, ietf <ietf@xxxxxxxx> >Subject: Re: Last Call: 'Definitions of Managed Objects for Remote Ping, Traceroute, and Lookup Operations' to Proposed Standard > >When you combine increase with monotonically you rule out the >possibility that it is equal. > >However I'd expect for an index you want increasing by one, which is >more strict than monotonically increasing. ... For most integer-indexed tables, the interval between index values is irrelevant. The values just need to be different. The GetNext and GetBulk operations used to retrieve information from tables just rely on a notion of greater-than. Gaps appearing in the sequence of values seen as indexes in retrieved data may occur for many reasons, including the application of access control policy, so a management application that relied on them having an interval of 1 would be asking for trouble. A robust management application won't even assume that table entries will come back in the correct order, since some SNMP agent implementations get this wrong for some cases. Randy _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf