This object contains an appropriate value to be used for bdifthTemplateIndex when creating entries in the bdifthTemplateTable. The distinguished value 0 indicates that no unassigned entries are available. To obtain a suggested bdifthTemplateIndex value for a new entry, the manager issues a management protocol retrieval operation to obtain the current value of this object. The manager may ignore this object and use alternative mechanisms for choosing an unused value of bdifthTemplateIndex for a new entry. The agent will modify the value to the next unassigned index, when a new entry is created in bdifthTemplateTable with the current value of this object. After deletion of an entry in bdifthTemplateTable the agent will determine through its local policy when its index value will be made available for reuse.