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Re: Updating the MIB boilerplate

>>>>> C M Heard writes:

Mike> On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Juergen Schoenwaelder wrote:
>> Since SNMPv3 is full standard now, I hope we can actually shorten
>> the boilerplate significantly.

Mike> That does not strike me as wise. 

[...]

This goes back to an old discussion whether we really need to explain
the various versions of SNMP and the SMI in great detail in each MIB
document. Sure, repetition is the key to learning... but perhaps at
some point in time, we can simply stop with this education by pointing
to RFC2570bis which has all the details.

In order to understand a MIB module, you basically need to know the
SMIv2 (normative) but not all the history about the SNMP versions.

Anyway, lets see what other feel about this old topic at this point in
time...

/js

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Juergen Schoenwaelder    <http://www.informatik.uni-osnabrueck.de/schoenw/>