[84142] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ISMS working group and charter problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Tue Sep 6 14:55:44 2005
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: dcrocker@bbiw.net
Cc: Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com>, nanog@merit.edu,
IETF Discussion <ietf@ietf.org>, iesg@ietf.org
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 06 Sep 2005 11:00:44 PDT."
<431DD94C.8070907@dcrocker.net>
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 14:55:14 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
In message <431DD94C.8070907@dcrocker.net>, Dave Crocker writes:
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>(By the way, I am awestruck at the potential impact of changing SNMP from
>UDP-based to TCP-based, given the extensive debates that took place about this
>when SNMP was originally developed. Has THIS decision been subject to adequate
>external review, preferably including a pass by the IAB?)
When I was the sponsoring AD for the group, I pushed back hard on this
point. The WG opted for the present path. I'm not saying they're
right -- in fact, I disagreed -- but the decision wasn't made by
default.
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
