Subject: [Isms] securing SNMP - marketing and reality

From: "Randy Presuhn" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:28:09 -0700

Hi -

It looks like SNMP's marketing problems persist -
this came from the [email-masked] list today.

Randy

> From: "Phillip Hallam-Baker" <[email-masked]>
> To: "Scott O. Bradner" <[email-masked]>
> Cc: <[email-masked]>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 12:24 PM
> Subject: Re: what is the problem bis
...
> Most of the documents to reach STANDARD status in recent years have been
> SNMP documents. But even though SNMP has its uses, deployment and use hardly
> compares with HTTP which is at DRAFT. And nobody should be considering using
> the SNMP 2.0 protocol which is the one that is allegedly STANDARD as it has
> no security layer.
...