RE: Goals for netconf - moving towards the charter description

["Faye Ly" <faye@pedestalnetworks.com>]

Ran,

Sorry I must have mis-interpreted your message.  There are network
devices out there that have the IP stack but are used for network
management traffic only.  The user traffic is NOT IP.  Do they count as
the IP-centric network devices then?

-faye

-----Original Message-----
From: RJ Atkinson [mailto:rja@extremenetworks.com] 
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 4:54 AM
To: Faye Ly
Cc: Margaret Wasserman; xmlconf@ops.ietf.org
Subject: Re: Goals for netconf - moving towards the charter description


On Thursday, Mar 27, 2003, at 20:56 America/Montreal, Faye Ly wrote:
>  As I kept getting emails
> stating XMLConf is for IP centric device only which is a bit 
> frustrating
> for me.

"IP-centric" == has an IP stack, as was stated on-list several days 
back.

For that definition, the XMLconf protocol *IS* only for IP-centric
devices.  If there is no IP stack on the device, there is no way
to move the configuration blob on/off the device -- Quod Est 
Demonstratum.

And nothing Margaret has said has changed that -- for example mrw
has NOT proposed an XMLconf spec that can work absent an IP stack.

Ran


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