Subject: Security TG Characteristic

From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 95 13:41:13 CST

At the APPN MIB SIG meeting in Raleigh at AIW9, I agreed to locate the
exact definition in the Architecture reference manual for the security
TG characteristic.  According to the APPN Architecture Reference, the
following statement on page 7-47 indicates that there are only seven
defined values:  "Instead of allowing or requiring a user to assign
relative values for the security of their TGs, the security values are
architecturally defined to provide continuity across all networks. ...
Currently, security is encoded as one of the following seven values: ..."

Therefore, the definition on page 105 and 128 of the APPN MIB ("The
security is represented as an integer with a range of values 1 thru
255.") should be changed to reflect that *only* the defined architected
values (seven of them) are allowed.

Thank you, Rachel Bodner