Re: Report on POSIX.7: System Administration

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1991 23:35

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Submitted-by: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)

In article <1991Jun25.214723.7644@uunet.uu.net> pc@hillside.co.uk (Peter Collinson) writes:
>... There was also an increased awareness
>of the related work of other organizations, such as the OSI Network
>Management Forum, the OSI Implementer's Workshop Network Management
>SIG, and X/Open.  As this other work comes to fruition, it will be
>available for use by POSIX.7 and will likely solve some of the
>thornier problems, such as interoperability.

Why does it worry me that this list of related organizations does not
mention the IETF and the SNMP/MIB work -- the network-management
protocols and facilities that are in far wider use than any of the
above, with a far greater level of demonstrated interoperability?
-- 
"We're thinking about upgrading from    | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
SunOS 4.1.1 to SunOS 3.5."              |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry


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