"Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Context EngineID Discovery", , 13-Feb-08. ( bytes)

The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) version three (SNMPv3) requires that an application knows the identifier (snmpEngineID) of the remote SNMP protocol engine in order to retrieve or manipulate objects maintained on the remote SNMP entity. This document introduces a well-known localEngineID and a discovery mechanism which can be used to learn the snmpEngineID of a remote SNMP protocol engine. The proposed mechanism is independent of the features provided by SNMP security models and may also be used by other protocol interfaces providing access to managed objects. This document updates RFC 3411.

"Guidelines for Considering Operations and Management of New Protocols", David Harrington, 25-Feb-08. ( bytes)

New protocols or protocol extensions are best designed with due consideration of functionality needed to operate and manage the protocol. Retrofitting operations and management is sub-optimal. The purpose of this document is to provide guidance to authors and reviewers of documents defining new protocols or protocol extensions, covering aspects of operations and management that should be considered.

"Expressing SNMP SMI Datatypes in XML Schema Definition Language", Bob Natale, Yan Li, 25-Feb-08. ( bytes)

This memo (when approved as a standards-track RFC) defines the IETF standard expression of Structure of Management Information (SMI) base datatypes in Extensible Markup Language (XML) Schema Definition (XSD) language. The primary objective of this memo is to enable production of XML documents that are as faithful to the SMI as possible, using XSD as the validation mechanism.

"A Template for Internet Drafts Containing Data Models", David Harrington, 11-Feb-08. ( bytes)

This memo contains two annotated templates for IETF documents that contain the definition of data models. It is intended to alleviate the work of the authors of such documents, making these more uniform and easier to read and review, thus furthering the quality of such documents and expediting their publication.

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