The purpose of libsmi is to * give network management applications a concise programmer-friendly interface to access MIB module information, * separate the knowledge on SMI from the main parts of management applications, * allow to add new kinds of MIB repositories without the need to adapt applications that make use of libsmi. . In this context, MIB is "Management Information Base" and SMI stands for "Structure and identification of Management Information". See RFC1902 and others for details.
