SAP NetWeaver 7.1x - Why?

OK quite a strange title - but I've just spent a day delving into exactly what SAP NetWeaver 7.1x is. It's not a full NetWeaver release. They are 7.00/7.01 and then 7.3 - this is a release only for specific usage types - e.g. NetWeaver CE (Composition environment) 7.10 or NetWeaver PI (Process Integration) 7.10.

But why only release a version that's for specific Usage Types? I'm sure there's a perfectly reasonable answer but it still winds me up a little.

So for context - I was looking at SAP Redwood CPS ( http://www.redwood.com/solutions/business/sap-central-process-scheduling/ ) and it's listed as compatible, currently, with SAP NW 7.00, SAP NW 7.01 (7 + EHP1), SAP NW PI 7.10 and SAP NW PI 7.11. This seems quite quite strange as I don't believe from reading materials on SAP and Redwood CPS that it requires an ABAP stack... yet for PI you'll get a dual stack - you'd need something like a SAP CE 7.10/7.11 installation for a standalone Java stack..... hmmm.. for now I'm looking to SAP NetWeaver 7.01 AS Java for a CPS platform - unless the documentation is updated or they release CPS fro SAP NetWeaver 7.30

SNMP

SNMP - Simple Network Management Protocol

I hadn't realised how widespread this had become as a protocol used by applications all over the IT industry. Recently found working with SAP and Redwood tools that they all rely heavily on this protocol.

As it's so critical what body oversees it's integrity?

Turns out it's
"..a component of the Internet Protocol Suite as defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). It consists of a set of standards for network management, including an application layer protocol, a database schema, and a set of data objects."- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Network_Management_Protocol

I highly recommend to those in the industy a quick visit to the IETF site to stay abreast of what's going on. Currently their next big meeting is in Taipei, Taiwan in November.
http://www.ietf.org/