Re: Status of SNMPv2 Documents

["michael (m.) sam chee" <[e-mail]>]

In message "Status of SNMPv2 Documents", [e-mail] writes:

> It is possible that SNMPv2 will never to be a standard, 

Let me surmise to say, and I hope I am wrong, that the SNMP community 
is slowly but surely losing faith in the SNMP Working Group.

The original SNMPv2 was perceived as being proposed by a set of highly
qualified persons, so many people took this at face value and faithfully
went ahead and implemented the proposed standard. 

Today, new proposals are probably not likely to receive the same warm 
reception as before because of what became of the original SNMPv2 proposal. 
We may be putting ourselves deeper in a catch 22 situation - no one implements 
till it becomes a draft/full standard, but this is not possible until there are 
implementations.

IMHO, I think we need to pick up the pieces, put all interpersonal 
conflicts aside, come to grips with what had went wrong and how we can
improve on it, so we can regain the thrust of the SNMP community
and move forward. 

Just a thought.

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