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SMIng Objectives
Alternative Format: Original Text Document
Network Working Group C. Elliott
Request for Comments: 3216 Cisco Systems
Category: Informational D. Harrington
Enterasys Networks
J. Jason
Intel Corporation
J. Schoenwaelder
F. Strauss
TU Braunschweig
W. Weiss
Ellacoya Networks
December 2001
SMIng Objectives
Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does
not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this
memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2001). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
This document describes the objectives for a new data definition
language, suitable for the modeling of network management constructs,
that can be directly mapped into SNMP and COPS-PR protocol
operations.
The purpose of this document is to serve as a set of objectives that
a subsequent language specification should try to address. It
captures the results of the working group discussions towards
consensus on the SMIng objectives.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Motivation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. Specific Objectives for SMIng . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4.1 Accepted Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4.1.1 The Set of Specification Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.1.2 Textual Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.1.3 Human Readability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Elliott, et al. Informational