[ih] Quantifying OSI

[william yeager]

The below is interesting because the project on which I was working was called Dr. Network.  I was placing a pseudo-AI layer on top of the SNMP API in the Dec Station I had. It is possible that I downloaded the latter, compiled and installed it. 

I went to an office somewhere near Boston, a short train ride, gave a talk on the proposal and DEC accepted it. I wanted to make sense of the SNMP numbers and use them for diagnostics + alerts on our LAN rather than just regurgitate lists. It was very cool ...

The I/O didn’t bother me. I did have a friend, Geoff Mogul, who was a recent Stanford phd and worked in the Palo Alto Alma Street office at that time. I went there for demos of the DEC station. 

Bill
> On May 12, 2026, at 3:03 PM, Dave Crocker via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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> This kind of purity view ran deep in DEC, including killing an SNMP management console that productized the free software and was in direct response to DEC customer demand.  But it was killed because it did  not conform to the 'strategic' network management work.  Which eventually shipped and failed.

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