Re: Goals for netconf - moving towards the charter description

[RJ Atkinson <rja@extremenetworks.com>]

On Sunday, Mar 23, 2003, at 21:50 America/Montreal, Andy Bierman wrote:
> Why do you think the NETCONF WG should be concerned with the
> configuration data for specific technologies?  Why would the
> protocol need to be different to manipulate fault configuration
> data vs. port configuration data, or any other kind of
> configuration data for that matter?  From the protocol POV,
> configuration data is just text payload.
IMHO, the key thing is that the proposal(s) here are for moving
XML-based device configuration data over an IP network, not
directly moving that data over ATM or ISDN or FDDI.

So the target scope is necessarily limited to IP-centric devices,
rather than all conceivable telecommunications equipment.

This is slightly different scope than SNMP, which can
either run over IP or run over different non-IP technologies.

Ran


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