Hi, I think the answer to your question is "by defining a standard so vendors are encouraged to use a common approach rather than everybody using their own vendor-specific proprietary approach."
If we were not trying to define an industry standard, I wouldn't see the point of doing this work in the IETF. dbh --- David Harrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] co-chair, IETF SNMPv3 WG > -----Original Message----- > From: Magosányi Árpád [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 11:39 AM > To: Glenn Mansfield Keeni > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: syslog-mib > > > Hi! > > How do you plan to address that each syslog implementation > have different configureable parameters and configuration > approaches? For an example see syslog-ng documentation at > http://www.balabit.hu/static/syslog-ng/reference/book1.html > > I could not see if this is a goal of the MIB, But if it > isn't, then I cannot see the point of having one. > > -- > GNU GPL: csak tiszta forrásból > > > >