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        RFC 1856:

        Title:      The Opstat Client-Server Model for Statistics
                    Retrieval 
        Author:     H. Clark
        Date:       October 1995
        Mailbox:    henryc@bbnplanet.com
        Pages:      21
        Characters: 29,954
        Updates/Obsoletes:  none

        URL:        ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1856.txt


Network administrators gather data related to the performance,
utilization, usability and growth of their data network.  The amount
of raw data gathered is usually quite large, typically ranging
somewhere between several megabytes to several gigabytes of data each
month.  Few (if any) tools exist today for the sharing of that raw
data among network operators or between a network service provider
(NSP) and its customers.  This document defines a model and protocol
for a set of tools which could be used by NSPs and Network Operation
Centers (NOCs) to share data among themselves and with customers.
This document is the product of the Operational Statistics Working
Group of the IETF.

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Joyce K. Reynolds
USC/Information Sciences Institute