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        RFC 1905:

        Title:      Protocol Operations
                    for Version 2 of the
                    Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)
        Author:     SNMPv2 Working Group, J. Case, K. McCloghrie,
                    M. Rose & S. Waldbusser
        Date:       January 1996
        Mailbox:    case@snmp.com, kzm@cisco.com,
                    mrose@dbc.mtview.ca.us, stevew@uni.ins.com
        Pages:      24
        Characters: 55,526
        Obsoletes:  1448

        URL:        ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1905.txt


The management protocol, version 2 of the Simple Network Management
Protocol, provides for the exchange of messages which convey
management information between the agents and the management stations.
The form of these messages is a message "wrapper" which encapsulates a
Protocol Data Unit (PDU).  The form and meaning of the "wrapper" is
determined by an administrative framework which defines both
authentication and authorization policies.  It is the purpose of this
document to define the operations of the protocol with respect to the
sending and receiving of the PDUs.  This RFC is the product of the
SNMP Version 2 Working Group of the IETF.

This is now a Draft Standard Protocol.

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