[bind10-dev] Fwd: Re: snmp

[Stephen Morris]

> 3) In conjunction with (2) we also may need/want to provide space 
> for configuring things via SNMP.  Has the Bind10 team thought about
> this?  I wouldn't be surprised if you decided to only provide stats
> level information, but a small number of configuration options (on,
> off, etc) might be useful.  When last I was involved with SNMP it
> tended to be more used for monitoring than configuring and I don't
> think that has really changed.  However there were exceptions cable
> modems and US DOD being the two big ones.

>From the Introduction to RFC 6168:

   Previous standardization work within the IETF resulted in the
   creation of two SNMP MIB modules [RFC1611] [RFC1612], but they failed
   to achieve significant implementation and deployment.  The perceived
   reasons behind the failure for the two MIB modules are documented in
   [RFC3197].

Stephen