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From: af%sei.ucl.ac.be@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU ("Alain FONTAINE ", Postmaster - NAD)
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Subject: Re: Heathkit Weather Computer (IDW5001)
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Date: 11 Oct 90 15:38:43 GMT
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On Wed, 3 Oct 90 16:24:46 GMT David M. Siegel said:
>would be nice to use a "standard" weather TCP/UDP protocol for this
>purpose.  Ideally, all Internet sites with weather data could support
>this protocol.  The protocol should be extensible, since it is hard to
>anticipate all types of weather data that people might have.
>
>I'm wondering, does such a protocol exist?
>
This question has been discussed some months ago. The conclusion was that no
new protocol is needed: this is an ideal application for SNMP. Just define
a weather-report MIB....

P.S. I tried a private reply, but it was bounced at uunet.....

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