[winsome]

You sound like me. Stumbled into the industry at a startup (different than the one you're at -- you could probably guess which one) and have been around a while now. The condition of our traffic infrastructure is terrifying, frankly.

I was shocked when I learned that NTCIP was built on top of SNMPv1. To make matters worse, there are actually people in the industry against the adoption SNMPv3. That would at least adds a modicum of security via authentication and encryption. I'd prefer we build around another protocol entirely.

Imagine if folks at IBM knew we still used SDLC as the backbone of our communication in the cabinets...