RFC 5590 on Transport Subsystem for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)

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        RFC 5590

        Title:      Transport Subsystem for the Simple 
                    Network Management Protocol (SNMP) 
        Author:     D. Harrington, J. Schoenwaelder
        Status:     Standards Track
        Date:       June 2009
        Mailbox:    ietfdbh@comcast.net, 
                    j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de
        Pages:      34
        Characters: 84513
        Updates:    RFC3411, RFC3412, RFC3414, RFC3417

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-isms-tmsm-18.txt

        URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5590.txt

This document defines a Transport Subsystem, extending the Simple
Network Management Protocol (SNMP) architecture defined in RFC 3411.
This document defines a subsystem to contain Transport Models that is
comparable to other subsystems in the RFC 3411 architecture.  As work
is being done to expand the transports to include secure transports,
such as the Secure Shell (SSH) Protocol and Transport Layer Security
(TLS), using a subsystem will enable consistent design and modularity
of such Transport Models.  This document identifies and describes
some key aspects that need to be considered for any Transport Model
for SNMP.  [STANDARDS TRACK]

This document is a product of the Integrated Security Model for SNMP Working Group of the IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.

STANDARDS TRACK: This document specifies an Internet standards track
protocol for the Internet community,and requests discussion and suggestions
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