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Re: Standard way of referencing SNMP versions



Hi -

> Message-ID: <3CA4A04A.1E6229DF@cisco.com>
> Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 12:11:38 -0500
> From: Kevin Lingle <klingle@cisco.com>
> To: "Baxter, Charles A" <CBaxter@crt.xerox.com>
> Cc: "'mibs@ops.ietf.org'" <mibs@ops.ietf.org>,
>         "Hopkins, Mark" <MHopkins@crt.xerox.com>
> Subject: Re: Standard way of referencing SNMP versions
> References: <C8B562D6473E5E44B47785438F3C517D302CB8@crte147.wc.eso.mc.xerox.com>
...
> i think  the most common convention is: SNMPv1, SNMPv2, SNMPv3.
...

Please don't use the label "SNMPv2".  The differences between
some of the protocols under that banner are far too great.  It's
better to use the more precise SNMPv2c, SNMPv2p, SNMPv2*, etc.

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