Re: snmpv2 Will it flood us or be slow

[MARTIN USHER <[e-mail]>]

Speaking as an observer....

1) It is very easy for people who are 'in' to things to think
that everyone else has the same level of commitment and interest.
They can end up designing somthing that may be very elegant and
comprehensive but is totally unusable by end users. SNMP achieved
acceptance because it was 'simple' - to implement, to use and to
diagnose. What we are looking at with v2 is somthing that - while
it addresses shortcomings in v1 - requires drastic increases in
storage, processing power and developer time. This does not bode
well.

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