RFC 2579
E702743
RFC 2579 is an Internet standards document that defines textual conventions for use with the Structure of Management Information Version 2 (SMIv2) in network management protocols like SNMP.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| RFC 2579 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7987381 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: RFC 2579 Context triple: [SMIv2, specifiedIn, RFC 2579]
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A.
RFC 2574
RFC 2574 is an earlier IETF specification that defined the User-based Security Model (USM) for securing SNMPv3 communications before being superseded by RFC 3414.
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B.
RFC 2595
RFC 2595 is an Internet standard that originally defined the use of TLS to secure email-related protocols such as IMAP, POP3, and ACAP.
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C.
RFC 2279
RFC 2279 is an older Internet standard that originally defined UTF-8 as a transformation format for Unicode, later superseded by RFC 3629.
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D.
RFC 2572
RFC 2572 is an earlier IETF specification that defined the Message Processing and Dispatching for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) before being superseded by RFC 3412.
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E.
RFC 3629
RFC 3629 is the Internet standard that defines the UTF-8 character encoding for representing Unicode/ISO/IEC 10646 characters in a byte-oriented format.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: RFC 2579 Target entity description: RFC 2579 is an Internet standards document that defines textual conventions for use with the Structure of Management Information Version 2 (SMIv2) in network management protocols like SNMP.
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A.
RFC 2574
RFC 2574 is an earlier IETF specification that defined the User-based Security Model (USM) for securing SNMPv3 communications before being superseded by RFC 3414.
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B.
RFC 2595
RFC 2595 is an Internet standard that originally defined the use of TLS to secure email-related protocols such as IMAP, POP3, and ACAP.
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C.
RFC 2279
RFC 2279 is an older Internet standard that originally defined UTF-8 as a transformation format for Unicode, later superseded by RFC 3629.
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D.
RFC 2572
RFC 2572 is an earlier IETF specification that defined the Message Processing and Dispatching for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) before being superseded by RFC 3412.
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E.
RFC 3629
RFC 3629 is the Internet standard that defines the UTF-8 character encoding for representing Unicode/ISO/IEC 10646 characters in a byte-oriented format.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Internet standards document
ⓘ
Request for Comments ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
MIBs
ⓘ
linked to:
MIB-I
Management Information Base modules ⓘ |
| area | network management ⓘ |
| category | Standards Track ⓘ |
| defines | textual conventions for SMIv2 ⓘ |
| definesConcept |
AutonomousType textual convention
ⓘ
DateAndTime textual convention ⓘ DisplayString textual convention ⓘ InstancePointer textual convention ⓘ MacAddress textual convention ⓘ PhysAddress textual convention ⓘ RowPointer textual convention ⓘ RowStatus textual convention ⓘ StorageType textual convention ⓘ TAddress textual convention ⓘ TDomain textual convention ⓘ TestAndIncr textual convention ⓘ TimeInterval textual convention ⓘ TimeStamp textual convention ⓘ TruthValue textual convention ⓘ VariablePointer textual convention ⓘ |
| definesFor |
SMIv2
ⓘ
Structure of Management Information Version 2 ⓘ
linked to:
Structure of Management Information
|
| definesSyntax | standardized textual names for commonly used SNMP data types ⓘ |
| goal |
improve interoperability of SNMP implementations
ⓘ
promote consistency in MIB definitions ⓘ |
| intendedFor |
MIB module authors
ⓘ
network management protocol designers ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| obsoletes | RFC 1443 ⓘ |
| partOf | SNMP standards ⓘ |
| publishedBy |
IETF
ⓘ
linked to:
Internet Engineering Task Force
Internet Engineering Task Force ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
RFC 2578
ⓘ
RFC 2580 ⓘ |
| scope | Internet network management ⓘ |
| standardsBody |
IETF Network Management Area
ⓘ
linked to:
IETF Areas
|
| status | Internet Standard ⓘ |
| title |
Textual Conventions for SMIv2
ⓘ
linked to:
SNMPv2-TC
|
| updatesSpecificationOf | textual conventions in SMIv2 ⓘ |
| usedWith |
SNMP
ⓘ
Simple Network Management Protocol ⓘ
linked to:
SNMP
|
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: RFC 2579 Description of subject: RFC 2579 is an Internet standards document that defines textual conventions for use with the Structure of Management Information Version 2 (SMIv2) in network management protocols like SNMP.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.