> Aha .. so you are saying that MIBs are not mandatory .... Very
> interesting. So I guess SSH to the routers and box by box cli
> provisioning is here to stay for a while I think :(


Well there is one example I can think of where this didn't
become the norm -- DOCSIS --  where a small customer community forced vendors 
through a process of standardization (trekking to Broomfield CO USA oh joy) 
in order for them to sell gear. And that included a set of tests for 
the SNMPv3 agent with mandated read-write mib modules among other 
mgmt protocols employed. 

Maybe this was a simpler problem than that's being discussed here.
But given the VC activity/startups on virtualized networking
can imagine that other chunks of networking infrastructure 
amenable to standardized configuration will follow suit.
Once that occurs then standards bodies codify industry practice.

Mike MacFaden


 |Tue, 2 Oct 2001 15:34:22 -0700
 |My amendment to Postel's Law:
 |Be liberal in what you accept, conservative in what you send, and add a
 |knob so that you can interoperate even if the other guy blows it.
 |
 |Tony
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