Re: Consensus Call

On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 10:33:06AM -0500, David B Harrington wrote:
 
> If you are not associated with a company, but rather a university or
> an open-source product or whatever, will the status level have a real
> impact on what you do?

Most open source projects are driven by individual interests and in
the bridge context, it is usually the MIBs that the vendors have 
implemented that count. (While there are open source briding
implementations around, they usually do not come with an SNMP
management interface since they run on general purpose boxes.)

So standards status is largely irrelevant as far as I am concerned. 
Migration between versions is however an issues since we are like 
everybody else concerned about interoperability and we typically 
dislike to have complex code just because standards were never 
finished or made the coexistance rather complicated. 

In summary, I think open source coders look at these issues like 
probably most other management application writers, except that
we have more freedom to ignore some proprietary solutions by just
telling people why we do not support certain things. (You can't
do that in a commercial setting I guess.)

/js

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