Re: Goals for netconf - moving towards the charter description

[Andy Bierman <abierman@cisco.com>]

At 11:28 AM 3/24/2003 -0800, David T. Perkins wrote:
>HI,
>
>In listening to the reactions to the NETCONF BOF, it seems like
>many people are skipping ahead instead of taking time to appreciate
>the first goal. A short description of it is the following from
>Ran...
>"move vendor-proprietary blobs of configuration data around using
>a common convention for transmission over the wire",
>
>This seems too simple, to be important, but it has been a stumbling 
>block and a source of extra cost in managing devices. The NETCONF
>proposal starts with it and lays down the foundation for a new
>standard way of managing network devices.

It's not just the transmission of configuration data over the wire.
The proposal includes standard operations on configuration datastores,
such as locking, validation, checkpoint and rollback, etc.
The blobs of configuration data may be proprietary or standard,
or even a mixture of both. 

There has already been some excellent work done to convert a MIB to an XSD,
which should be very useful for leveraging standard MIB object definitions.
Check out the smidump program, which is part of the libSMI library:
http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/projects/libsmi/


>Regards,
>/david t. perkins

Andy


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