David T Perkins writes:
David> That is, one must perform strict checking, and then look at the David> results and turn off individual items after they have been David> verified to be OK.
Sure - one has to look at the generated warnings. Blindly changing MIBs is not smart. Blindly turning warnings also does not help, especially since you really want to turn a warning off for a specific definition rather than for the whole module. I personally prefer that definitions causing warnings simply get documented/explained in appropriate comments in MIBs.
Anyway, we were talking here about moving some warnings to a level which is usually not active during MIB reviews. Examples are warnings that descriptors only differ in case (which is important if you plan to map e.g. to CORBA IDL but not really an SMIv2 requirement) or the 32 character length requirement (which people do not consider that important these days).
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