Talk:Structure Of Management Information

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_of_Management_Information

importance
Regarding the issue of importance, I suspect there were motivations behind SMI: 1) to specify the subset of ASN.1 that would be used for network management; and 2) to pin-down a reference, since there is no Internet Standards track RFC for ASN.1. Other than that, SMI really doesn't seem to add much value beyond ASN. I could, of-course, be sadly mistaken. --Paul 21:21, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

merge
Come to think of it, this should probably be merged with either the article on SNMP, or the article on MIBs (the latter is probably the better fit). When I get a chance, I'll look-up the proper page-top tag for a proposed merge. --Paul 20:39, 18 August 2006 (UTC)