In this situation, a manager application program requests that an object be deleted and the agent application program that owns the object rejects the delete request. In general, these are the steps that are followed:

1. The manager application program issues the CMIP delete request for an object.
2. CMIP services sends an ROIV message to the agent application program that owns the object.
3. The agent application program sends the MIB.DeleteResponse with a result code of 1 to CMIP services.
4. CMIP services sends an ROER to the manager application program.

Subtree managers might receive deletes that were not scoped specifically to the subtree manager object but that might apply to an object under the subtree manager. The subtree manager must perform delete processing with its objects.