Re: [netmod] operational knobs

["Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn at mindspring.com>]

Hi -

> From: "Romascanu, Dan (Dan)" <dromasca at avaya.com>
> To: "Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn at mindspring.com>; "NETMOD Working Group" <netmod at ietf.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 10:43 AM
> Subject: RE: [netmod] operational knobs
...
> What changed in the two decades dramatically is the cost of the
> resources needed for implementation on a network device. As an
> implementer at that time I can bare direct witness that the principal
> reason we adopted SNMP at that point in time was simply that it was
> implementable in network devices (hubs, bridges, routers) while CMIP was
> not. 

That depends on the implementation approach.  Yes, at that time there
was a freely-available implementation which was spectacularly inefficient
in terms of code size, memory use, and processing time.  I think that
implementation did more to kill CMIP than anything else.  We implemented
it from scratch, and found it could be implemented compactly and efficiently,
working quite well in 68000/68302-based network gear.

Randy