Re: Standard way of referencing SNMP versions

[Andy Bierman <abierman@cisco.com>]

At 01:34 PM 4/2/2002, Randy Presuhn wrote:
>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.

In theory, this precision is interesting.
In reality, the only SNMPv2 that anybody is using is SNMPv2c,
so calling it SNMPv2 is not really a problem.


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Andy