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<reference anchor='RFC2572'>

<front>
<title abbrev='Message Processing and Dispatching'>Message Processing and Dispatching for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)</title>
<author initials='J.' surname='Case' fullname='Jeffrey Case'>
<organization>SNMP Research, Inc.</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>3001 Kimberlin Heights Road</street>
<city>Knoxville</city>
<region>TN</region>
<code>37920-9716</code>
<country>US</country></postal>
<phone>+1 423 573 1434</phone>
<email>case@snmp.com</email></address></author>
<author initials='D.' surname='Harrington' fullname='Dave Harrington'>
<organization>Cabletron Systems, Inc</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>35 Industrial Way</street>
<street>Mail Stop: Durham</street>
<street>Post Office Box 5005</street>
<city>Rochester</city>
<region>NH</region>
<code>03867-5005</code>
<country>US</country></postal>
<phone>+1 603 337 7357</phone>
<email>dbh@ctron.com</email></address></author>
<author initials='R.' surname='Presuhn' fullname='Randy Presuhn'>
<organization>BMC Software, Inc.</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>965 Stewart Drive</street>
<city>Sunnyvale</city>
<region>CA</region>
<code>94086</code>
<country>US</country></postal>
<phone>+1 408 616 3100</phone>
<email>randy_presuhn@bmc.com</email></address></author>
<author initials='B.' surname='Wijnen' fullname='Bert Wijnen'>
<organization>IBM T. J. Watson Research</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>Schagen 33</street>
<street>3461 GL Linschoten</street>
<country>NL</country></postal>
<phone>+31 34 8432794</phone>
<email>wijnen@vnet.ibm.com</email></address></author>
<date month='April' year='1999' />
<abstract>
<t>This document describes the Message Processing and Dispatching for
   SNMP messages within the SNMP architecture.
.  It defines the
   procedures for dispatching potentially multiple versions of SNMP
   messages to the proper SNMP Message Processing Models, and for
   dispatching PDUs to SNMP applications.  This document also describes
   one Message Processing Model  the SNMPv3 Message Processing Model.</t></abstract></front>

<seriesInfo name='RFC' value='2572' />
</reference>
