[ih] One man's view of Internet history

[Craig Partridge]

In message <5.1.0.14.2.20020804163158.039ea620 at jay.songbird.com>, Dave Crocker 
writes:

>The problem was that it was not as far along and, of course, SNMP and CMIP 
>had far larger established bases of support.  Separate from the political 
>aspects of that disparity, it means that there was more practical 
>experience with the strengths and weakness of HEMS' competitors than with HEMS

Hi Dave:

I'd disagree slightly.  It was clear that both had far larger bases of support.

And SNMP (err, SGMP) had *far far* more operational experience.  We had
only a single implementation of HEMS at the time of the decision (and in
a host, not a router) while SGMP was already in management stations and
routers.

However, CMIP was not in better shape than HEMS (there wore more implementations
but they were incomplete toys -- the CMIP spec was still fragmentary at the
time).

Craig