Errata

Status:

Held for Document Update

Type:

Editorial

Reported By:

Gabriel Montenegro

Date Reported:

2012-02-16

Held for Document Update by:

IAB-Chair

Section 3.3 says:

   Also, the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) uses the textual
   representation defined in [RFC2579].  While that specification does
   allow for UTF-8-based domain names, an informal survey of deployed
   implementations of software libraries being used to build SNMP-
   compliant software uncovered the fact that few (if any) implement it.

It should say:

   Also, the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) uses the textual
   representation defined in [RFC2579].  That specification does not
   allow for UTF-8-based domain names, and an informal survey of deployed
   implementations of software libraries being used to build SNMP-
   compliant software confirmed the fact that few (if any) implement 
   it.

Notes:

RFC2579 is pretty clear about ASCII-only here.  Whereas using SnmpAdminString in RFC2571 could allow for UTF-8 in the interest of i18n, that is not what is being discussed here.