Re: [6lo] Focusing the charter

Geoff Mulligan <geoff.ietf@mulligan.com> Fri, 14 June 2013 18:14 UTC

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On 06/14/2013 11:42 AM, Michael Richardson wrote:
>>>>>> "Ulrich" == Ulrich Herberg <ulrich@herberg.name> writes:
>      Ulrich> The 6lowpan MIB may be useful, even though I am still
>      Ulrich> wondering how SNMP can be used over link layers using
>      Ulrich> 6lowpan (a discussion that was also started in COMAN). Maybe
>
> MIBs are not SNMP.
> MIBs are a set of well defined counters (and other objects) defined in ASN.1.
> SNMP is just one way of transporting queries about that ASN.1.
Ulrich: Why can't SNMP be used over 6lowpans?  I don't see what would 
technically stop it from being used or from working.