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From: schoff@PSI.COM ("Martin Lee Schoffstall")
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Subject: Re: What is the IAB?
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Date: 3 Jun 90 01:29:51 GMT
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> Indeed it seems
> that several other missteps within the Internet community can be traced to
> this same cause. The use of ASN.1 within SNMP, for example.

Whoa!  ASN.1 was used in SGMP the "experimental" predecessor of SNMP which
NO ONE from the OSI camp had any influence on, PERIOD.  Four people who's
healthy skeptism of ISO technology and politics are world known (you heard
me in Stockholm) needed a format and chose ASN.1 within the SGMP concept
and proved its workability.  The next generation SNMP kept the design
and tradition and use of ASN.1.  ASN.1 was a good choice, NOTHING has
proven this a bad choice.

About every six months there seems to be a little chinese fire drill,
it would appear initated by some of the iconic figures of the Internet,
who talk about performance problems with X,Y,Z areas of SNMP/ASN.1.
All of them have been proven false, and without merit.

SGMP and SNMP went through a very thorough process, of implementation,
review, implementation, review, implementation, review.  Lots and lots
of that good stuff called peer review.  If there was a technical problem
of that size it would have died on the vine.

Marty