Talk:OMAPI

This article was nominated for deletion on 25 January 2013 (UTC). The result of the discussion was no consensus.

Text and/or other creative content from this version of OMAPI was copied or moved into DHCPD with this edit. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists.

Notability

Does anybody think this topic is actually notable? If not, I'd like to propose the article for deletion. OMAPI is my fault, and it's not something I'm proud of--it was the wrong solution to the problem. As far as I know, it's not in wide use, so having a wiki article about it seems unnecessary and likely to mislead people into thinking its use is more widespread than it is. Abhayakara (talk) 23:06, 29 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

In my research for a major paper on IPv6 I'm running across organizations using OMAPI, some of them quite large. I think it's being used in locally written IPAM software to help update DNS servers in an IPv6 environment. So far the references are in passing, but apparently the protocol is becoming more important. I'd recommend that you leave the reference in place and see if more people start using it.

Wayne Rash

--Waynerash (talk) 21:44, 1 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hm, I wish I'd been paying more attention—I probably should have removed the deletion request following the above comment. Water under the bridge—User:Pratyeka has restored the page, so the task before us is to improve it. I deleted some text about someone's book that may or may not have been link spam, but definitely had nothing to do with OMAPI. I also added some text about the ISC DHCP client, which also uses OMAPI—previously only the server had been mentioned. This is still a really minimal article, and could probably use some fleshing out. As far as I know, the only citable source is going to be the ISC DHCP man page. Abhayakara (talk) 01:19, 13 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]