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From: Randall Atkinson <randall@Virginia.EDU>
Subject: RFD: comp.protocols.snmp
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Date: 13 May 91 05:14:35 GMT
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  Christoph Uloth <chris@ec.uwa.oz.au>, Andrew C. Esh <andrew@jhereg.osa.com>,
and others have raised the notion that a newsgroup is needed for discussions
of the Internet Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and discussions
of software managers and agents for use with SNMP.

  There have been a number of postings outside the news.groups arena supporting
creating such a newsgroup.  I suspect that this is actually a case where what
is needed is to get someone to create an "inet" distribution newsgroup, but
to cover things all the way round, I am posting a formal USENET
Request for Discussion.

  The formal proposal follows.  Please post followups to news.groups
[[per the guidelines; the original request was for both news.groups
and comp.protocols.tcp-ip -- tale ]]

FORMAL PROPOSAL

NAME: comp.protocols.snmp  (unmoderated)

CHARTER:
  Discussions of the Internet SNMP protocol and software agents and managers
  for use with SNMP.  Discussions of SNMP-based network management.
-- 
Randall Atkinson
randall@Virginia.EDU