"Guidelines for Considering Operations and Management of New Protocols", David Harrington, 14-Jul-08. ( bytes): New protocols or protocol extensions are best designed with due consideration of functionality needed to operate and manage the protocol. Retrofitting operations and management is sub-optimal. The purpose of this document is to provide guidance to authors and reviewers of documents defining new protocols or protocol extensions, covering aspects of operations and management that should be considered.
"Expressing SNMP SMI Datatypes in XML Schema Definition Language", Bob Natale, Yan Li, 25-Aug-08. ( bytes): This memo (when approved as a standards-track RFC) defines the IETF standard expression of Structure of Management Information (SMI) base datatypes in Extensible Markup Language (XML) Schema Definition (XSD) language. The primary objective of this memo is to enable the production of XML documents that are as faithful to the SMI as possible, using XSD as the validation mechanism.
"Alarms in SYSLOG", Sharon Chisholm, Rainer Gerhards, 19-Jun-08. ( bytes): This document describes how to send alarm information in syslog. It includes the mapping of ITU perceived severities onto syslog message fields.

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