Re: [IETFMIBS] Message Encoding for SNMPv3

[Hamid Mukhtar <hamid at etri.re.kr>]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Randy Presuhn
<randy_presuhn at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Hi -
>
>> From: "Hamid Mukhtar" <hamid at etri.re.kr>
>> To: "Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn at mindspring.com>
>> Cc: <ietfmibs at ietf.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 5:08 PM
>> Subject: Re: [IETFMIBS] Message Encoding for SNMPv3
> ...
>> Just for my knowledge, Is the use of proxy-forwarder applications
>> restricted to forwarding the four basic types only or they can be used
>> for other proxy related applications too.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by "the four basic types".
>

RFC 3413 in its section 3.5 identifies four basic types of proxy
forwarder applications. You specified that the proxy forwarder (as
defined in RFC 3413) uses a "narrow sense" of the term proxy. For my
understanding I just need to clarify what you mean by narrow sense. Do
you mean that the only translation a proxy forwarder can do as an
intermediate entity is between SNMP versions. Thus the SNMPv3 proxy
forwarders cannot be used to translate between SNMP and non-SNMP
protocols (for instance a protocol which uses XML instead of BER
encoding).

> Randy
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Thanks for the help.

Regards,
Hamid