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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=952254921-05042006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff>(I'm sorry I missed the discussion this afternoon.) I would
like to agree and disagree at the same time. Agreed, without an economic
incentive, vendors are unlikely to undertake programs to improve their
implementations. They won't allocate resources specifically aimed at that
goal. On the other hand, I think that most vendors, as part of normal
maintenance, make minor improvements to come closer to compliance with
specifications over time. At least I have observed that in the past.
If there were tighter descriptions of the semantics of some items in the MIB, in
an implementer's guide or revised spec, I think that vendors might sneak up
on correct implementations over time. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=952254921-05042006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>If we kept
our effort really small and focused on a handful of properties in Printer MIB
and Host Resources MIB -- choose the worst offenders first -- we might be
able to get people's attention. (I'd be willing to work on a smallish
effort.)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma><B>From:</B> pmp-owner@pwg.org [mailto:pmp-owner@pwg.org]
<B>On Behalf Of </B>wamwagner@comcast.net<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, April 05,
2006 15:59<BR><B>To:</B> Stuart Rowley; pmp@pwg.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re:
PMP> MIB Implementers Guide BOF<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>Stuart,</DIV>
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<DIV>I agree absolutely. Without an economic incentive, the there is little
likelihood that many vendors will put in any effort to improve or even publicize
their public MIB implementations. There must be a perception of customer demand
for general manage-ability of a mixed fleet, products of multiple vendors
managed by a single application. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Several years ago I expected the trend to third party fleet maintainers
(e.g., Danka, Ikon, Pitney Bowles) to prompt such a demand; but these companies
have been silent. More recently I would have expected the popularity of assay
and hard-copy billing applications (many of which could sure stand access to job
information from printers) to create a demand for consistent job mib
implementation; but all I have seen are special deals with individual companies
to use proprietary features.</DIV>
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<DIV>Unless compliance with standard MIB (indeed, any management)
implementations becomes readily identifiable and is demanded as a checkoff
item on purchase requests, I suspect that there will be little motivation to
include, update or improve implementations.</DIV>
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<DIV>Bill Wagner</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Much of the
discussion hinged around getting printer vendors to improve their
implementations, to perform interoperability or certification, and to provide
readily accessible information on the level of their implementations, etc. so
that software applications can more successfully manage devices from multiple
vendors.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">As I think
Harry mentioned, the original intent of the printer MIB effort was in large
part to have third party vendors and the major enterprise management apps,
such as <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Tivoli</st1:place></st1:City>, Unicenter, and OpenView, develop
robust printer management implementations. When this failed to materialize,
virtually all printer vendors developed their own software to manage their
devices and, to a lesser extent, competitors devices as well. (or maybe the
printer vendors shot themselves in the foot by releasing these free printer
management apps and killing the incentive for other
development).<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">I think many
printer vendors may be resigned to the fact that the majority of print device
management will be done by their own management apps and they dont have too
much incentive to improve their partial management of competitors
devices.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Thus, these
vendors may have difficulty seeing the benefit of the effort involved to move
forward with much of the work that was proposed during the discussion. Perhaps
a listing of the benefits to the printer vendors would be necessary to spur
interest. Until there is market pressure to improve poor SNMP/MIB
implementations or a clearly defined tangible benefit, I think some printer
vendors may not be willing to allocate resources to these efforts.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Regards,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
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<P class=MsoNormal><A name=OLE_LINK1></A><st1:PersonName w:st="on"><FONT
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Rowley</SPAN></FONT></st1:PersonName><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">, Network
Product Mgr.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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