RE: Status of the WG

["Durham, David" <david.durham@intel.com>]

The silence is deafening, and says it all. It seems that while most are
in agreement that SMI is seriously antiquated, convoluted, and requires
several maintenance fixes, there is very little (apparently zero now)
interest in fixing it and improving it. It would seem people are
satisfied with SNMP being regulated to a legacy systems management
interface. 

There is the realization that up-to-date data modeling languages are
already widely used and available (e.g. XMLSchema), and that the IETF
should not be engaged in the task of inventing yet another idiosyncratic
data modeling language... Particularly given that it will seriously
languish behind those that are commonly available today. 

Looking at the ROI on this effort, there are those who are asking why
not just adopt what is already available and stop beating a dead horse
in the hopes it will rise.

-Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wijnen, Bert (Bert) [mailto:bwijnen@lucent.com]
> 
> So... not much (if anything) seems to be happening.
>