Hi Harry,
I've been running the SMICng tool 'mstrip' to extract the straight ASN.1
and then checking for compiler warnings in Epilogue or SMICng for feedback
to Lloyd.
Of course, there isn't *really* an official text of RFC 1759 (since without
a couple of lines of hand-edits it won't compile under *any* MIB compiler
I know of, when extracted from 'rfc1759.txt').
Two ways to write a MIB - write the compilable MIB as freestanding
source and then document it; or write a word processing document which
happens to contain the (embedded) MIB source and hope not many compile
errors are introduced. My informal observation is that 10-20% of the
IETF 'standards track' MIBs do *not* compile clean until edited (although
this has improved a lot in the past several years, so we can expect
that Printer MIB v2 will also be held up to a higher standard by
the IESG, including following the 'Internet Standard' SMIv2:1999
defined in RFC 2578-2580 and not the older RFC 1442-1444 or
1902-1904 texts).
Cheers,
- Ira McDonald