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From: stuarts@news.apertus.com (Stuart Stanley)
Subject: Re: What NOC's support SMP?
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Joachim Carlo Santos Martillo Ajami (martillo@nero.clearpoint.com) wrote:
: In article <karl.9.728359086@empirical.com> karl@empirical.com (Karl Auerbach) writes:

: >SMP is a dead horse.  SNMPv2 is undergoing final (hopefully) review by the 
: >IETF working groups on SNMP and security.  (SNMPv2 is actually a blend of 
: >two different standards.)  SNMPv2 is based on SMP, but a number of changes 
: >have been made.

: >			--karl--

: SNMPv2 is basically a dog with fleas.  One can hope it will soon be a
: dead dog with fleas.  The behavior of the proponents of SNMPv2 has
: basically been reprehensible.  Just check out some of the discussion
: in the SNMP mailing list.

: The approach taken by the designers of SNMPv2 is basically naive and
: retrograde.

: So why is the attrocity of SNMPv2 being foisted on the Internet
: community?

: Well, suppose you had a company whose raison d'e^tre was to provide
: SNMP agents, and the world was realizing SNMP just wasn't rocket
: science?

: Suppose you made money writing a book on SNMP and wanted to come out
: with a second edition?

: Let's all look up the word profiteering in the dictionary.

Lets also look up the idea of "it works".  After that we can look up
the idea of "it works perfectly for the needs we have".  The only
problem we ever had with SNMP was is inherent lack of security.  This
has been addressed to a fair degree with SNMP V2 and thus the whole
protocol fits our needs to the T.  I guess that is why the Internet
community (or at least this prarticular fragment of it) are having
SNMP foisted on it.... by itself!

In any case, it is a working, accepted technology that in theory will be
replaced by CMIP some day.  Dead dog with fleas, fine!, but I still need
a dead NOC with fleas as well ;)

: -- 
: Joachim Carlo Santos Martillo Ajami

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