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.
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