Re: SNMP improvements

[Wes Hardaker <wjhns1@hardakers.net>]

>>>>> On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 10:11:59 +0200, Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@iu-bremen.de> said:

Juergen> I disagree, however, that the ADs are a cause for all this -
Juergen> the problem is that the NM people did after many years still
Juergen> have not deliver a technology which addresses the
Juergen> requirements of the operators. Rather than pointing to the
Juergen> ADs, we should point to ourselves.

Sorry if I mislead you (and rereading what I wrote it does look like I
targeted them).  I think most people failed, from vendors to users to
ADs to me.  We need a roadmap agreed upon by everyone during this
transition time and we don't have one.  I've even offered to get one
started, and suggested a group it should go forward through but found
no interest from people even in that.

So, I kept typing but deleted a few sentences that just sounded too
depressing.  Let's turn it around instead.  What *can* we do to turn
the situation around.  That would be better (constructive) use of our
time.  Hopefully netconf will help the configuration side, but we're
still left with many problems that netconf won't solve as it's out of
scope.  Anyone have thoughts on what needs to be done and how to get
there?  (I'll offer some starting suggestions if no one else does).

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