Daniel Senie writes... > Based on your email, the consensus of the group is that TCP is good > enough, since it'll only be interesting to manage networks that are > operating cleanly. I can't imagine that's what the WG really > concluded, but that's how your email reads. It seems to me that the existing USM, SNMP over UDP, and a local user account would be sufficient as a fallback network management method when the network is experiencing a meltdown. Just as you have a local /etc/passwd file on your UNIX workstations, for those occasions when the NIS server is unreachable. I don't think anyone believes that ISMS will obviate the need for at least one local account on managed entities, to cover this type of situation. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf