Re: snmpv2 Will it flood us or be slow

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 >   Well come on now Karl, you don't believe companies are sending
 >   their employees here for totally altruistic reasons, do you?

I own a house that was paid for by my SNMP implementations.  I don't
find that having a financial interest is wrong or even distasteful.

 >     >2) I'm inherently suspicous of draft standards that are proposed
 >     >by people who may have a pecunary interest in their being
 >     >adopted.

I didn't write that, but I do agree with it.  As Frank Kastenholtz has
repeatedly pointed out, most of us *do* have some degree of interest,
financial or otherwise, in the fate of V2.  So merely having an
interst should not be a disqualifier for one who is a position to
further or impede the progress of V2 up standards ladder.  (By this I
mean one who is on the NM Directorate, the IESG, or IAB.)  However, it
is a matter of degree which must be considered on a case by case basis
in full context.  I also find it an improper mode to assume that just
because one does have some degree of conflict-of-interest that the
decisions that that person has rendered are necessarily suspect.  I
prefer to start on the rebuttable presumption that we operate out of
good motives and that financial reward comes merely as an incidental.

			--karl--