Re: [Isms] RFC 5953 on Transport Layer Security (TLS) Transport Model for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)

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>         RFC 5953
> 
>         Title:      Transport Layer Security (TLS) Transport 
>                     Model for the Simple Network Management 
>                     Protocol (SNMP) 
>         Author:     W. Hardaker
>         Status:     Standards Track
>         Stream:     IETF
>         Date:       August 2010
>         Mailbox:    ietf@hardakers.net
>         Pages:      65
>         Characters: 147393
>         Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None
> 
>         I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-isms-dtls-tm-14.txt
> 
>         URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5953.txt
> 
> This document describes a Transport Model for the Simple Network
> Management Protocol (SNMP), that uses either the Transport Layer
> Security protocol or the Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS)
> protocol.  The TLS and DTLS protocols provide authentication and
> privacy services for SNMP applications.  This document describes how
> the TLS Transport Model (TLSTM) implements the needed features of a
> SNMP Transport Subsystem to make this protection possible in an
> interoperable way.
> 
> This Transport Model is designed to meet the security and operational
> needs of network administrators.  It supports the sending of SNMP
> messages over TLS/TCP and DTLS/UDP.  The TLS mode can make use of
> TCP's improved support for larger packet sizes and the DTLS mode
> provides potentially superior operation in environments where a
> connectionless (e.g., UDP) transport is preferred.  Both TLS and DTLS
> integrate well into existing public keying infrastructures.
> 
> This document also defines a portion of the Management Information
> Base (MIB) for use with network management protocols.  In particular,
> it defines objects for managing the TLS 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.
> 
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