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        RFC 1443:

        Title:      Textual Conventions for version 2 of the
                    Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)
        Author:     J. Case, K. McCloghrie, M. Rose, & S. Waldbusser
        Mailbox:    case@snmp.com, kzm@hls.com,
                    mrose@dbc.mtview.ca.us, waldbusser@cmu.edu
        Pages:      31
        Characters: 60,947
        Updates/Obsoletes:  none


Management information is viewed as a collection of managed objects,
residing in a virtual information store, termed the Management
Information Base (MIB).  Collections of related objects are defined in
MIB modules.  When designing a MIB module, it is often useful to
define new types similar to those defined in the SMI.  In comparison
to a type defined in the SMI, each of these new types has a different
name, a similar syntax, but a more precise semantics.  These types are
termed textual conventions.  It is the purpose of this document to
define the initial set of textual conventions available to all MIB
modules.  This is a product of the SNMP Version 2 Working Group and
the SNMP Security Working Group of the IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.

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Joyce K. Reynolds
USC/Information Sciences Institute