An index that defines the relative order of the hosts in this ring starting from the Active Monitor station. The active monitor station contains the value of 1. The rest of the stations are arranged in sequential order relative to the active monitor station. When a station becomes inactive, its entry is not meant to be deleted. The value in the tokenRingOrderStatus is changed to inactive. The delete algorithm is implementation specific. If a station becomes active and its entry is already in the host table, then the value of the tokenRingOrderStatus object is changed to active. In addition, if the relative order of the host entries has changed, it shall increment the tokenRingNetworkHostOrderChange counter in the tokenRingNetwork table by one. On the other hand, if a station becomes active and its entry is not in the host table, then a new entry must be created. The new entry is inserted right after its upstream neighbor station. The tokenRingNetworkHostOrderChange counter in the tokenRingNetwork table shall not be increment. If the active monitor changes station and the relative position of the host entries is unchanged, then the tokenRingNetworkHostOrderChange object in the tokenRingNetwork table shall not be increment.