RFC 2856 (rfc2856) - Page 1 of 10
Textual Conventions for Additional High Capacity Data Types
Alternative Format: Original Text Document
Network Working Group A. Bierman
Request for Comments: 2856 K. McCloghrie
Category: Standards Track Cisco Systems, Inc.
R. Presuhn
BMC Software, Inc.
June 2000
Textual Conventions for Additional High Capacity Data Types
Status of this Memo
This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2000). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
This memo specifies new textual conventions for additional high
capacity data types, intended for SNMP implementations which already
support the Counter64 data type. The definitions contained in this
document represent a short term solution which may be deprecated in
the future.
Table of Contents
1 The SNMP Management Framework ................................. 2
2 Overview ...................................................... 3
2.1 Short Term and Long Term Objectives ......................... 3
2.2 Limitations of the Textual Convention Approach .............. 3
3 New Textual Conventions ....................................... 4
3.1 CounterBasedGauge64 ......................................... 4
3.2 ZeroBasedCounter64 .......................................... 4
4 Definitions ................................................... 4
5 Intellectual Property ......................................... 7
6 References .................................................... 7
7 Security Considerations ....................................... 9
8 Authors' Addresses ............................................ 9
9 Full Copyright Statement ...................................... 10
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