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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!warwick!nott-cs!ucl-cs!news
- From: J.Crowcroft@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Jon Crowcroft)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
- Subject: The Protocol
- Message-ID: <2807@ucl-cs.uucp>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 14:54:11 GMT
- Sender: news@cs.ucl.ac.uk
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- Evolution dictates:
- SGMP (simple gateway management protocol)
- SNMP (simple network management protocol)
- SMP (simple management protocol)
- SP (simple protocol)
- P (protocol)
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- but then what?
- :-)
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- jon
- p.s. of course, we should expect divergent species, such as
- MP (managment protocol)
- and
- M (management)
-
- but since these are neither simple, nor necessarily protocols, they
- serve no useful function.
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