Hi,
As programmer you might define an integer representation of FALSE with 0, but that is not a convention you can rely on in SNMP!
RFC 2579 (SNMPv2-TC) defines it as quoted above:
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2579.txt
Background of this is: The SNMP people avoid 0 for enumerations as a convention, to avoid 0 in row index values (when the enumeration is used as part of an index).
But as you can see this convention does not pay off, because most people without deep SNMP background do not understand it. Making things not explicit and simple to follow/understand wasn’t a good idea in software development for decades 