[rfc-dist] RFC 5608 on Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) Usage for Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Transport Models

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        RFC 5608

        Title:      Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service 
                    (RADIUS) Usage for Simple Network Management 
                    Protocol (SNMP) Transport Models 
        Author:     K. Narayan, D. Nelson
        Status:     Standards Track
        Date:       August 2009
        Mailbox:    kaushik_narayan at yahoo.com, 
                    dnelson at elbrysnetworks.com
        Pages:      14
        Characters: 34857
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-isms-radius-usage-07.txt

        URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5608.txt

This memo describes the use of a Remote Authentication Dial-In User
Service (RADIUS) authentication and authorization service with Simple
Network Management Protocol (SNMP) secure Transport Models to
authenticate users and authorize creation of secure transport
sessions.  While the recommendations of this memo are generally
applicable to a broad class of SNMP Transport Models, the examples
focus on the Secure Shell (SSH) Transport Model.  [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
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