2.1. Textual Conventions

   -- textual conventions

   Party ::= TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
       STATUS       current
       DESCRIPTION
               "Denotes a SNMPv2 party identifier.

               Note that agents may impose implementation
               limitations on the length of OIDs used to identify
               Parties. As such, management stations creating
               new parties should be aware that using an
               excessively long OID may result in the agent
               refusing to perform the set operation and instead
               returning the appropriate error response, e.g.,
               noCreation."
       SYNTAX       OBJECT IDENTIFIER

   TAddress ::= TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
       STATUS       current
       DESCRIPTION
               "Denotes a transport service address.

               For snmpUDPDomain, a TAddress is 6 octets long,
               the initial 4 octets containing the IP-address in
               network-byte order and the last 2 containing the
               UDP port in network-byte order.  Consult [5] for
               further information on snmpUDPDomain."
       SYNTAX       OCTET STRING

   Clock ::= TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
       STATUS       current
       DESCRIPTION
               "A party's authentication clock - a non-negative
               integer which is incremented as specified/allowed
               by the party's Authentication Protocol.

               For noAuth, a party's authentication clock is
               unused and its value is undefined.

               For v2md5AuthProtocol, a party's authentication
               clock is a relative clock with 1-second
               granularity."
       SYNTAX       UInteger32

   Context ::= TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
       STATUS       current
       DESCRIPTION
               "Denotes a SNMPv2 context identifier.

               Note that agents may impose implementation
               limitations on the length of OIDs used to identify
               Contexts. As such, management stations creating new
               contexts should be aware that using an excessively
               long OID may result in the agent refusing to
               perform the set operation and instead returning
               the appropriate error response, e.g., noCreation."
       SYNTAX       OBJECT IDENTIFIER

   StorageType ::= TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
       STATUS       current
       DESCRIPTION
               "Describes the memory realization of a conceptual
               row.  A row which is volatile(2) is lost upon
               reboot.  A row which is nonVolatile(3) is backed
               up by stable storage.  A row which is permanent(4)
               cannot be changed nor deleted."
       SYNTAX       INTEGER {
                        other(1),       -- eh?
                        volatile(2),    -- e.g., in RAM
                        nonVolatile(3), -- e.g., in NVRAM
                        permanent(4)    -- e.g., in ROM
                    }