Re: netconf WG charter proposal

["Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn@mindspring.com>]

Hi -

> From: "Andy Bierman" <abierman@cisco.com>
> To: "Randy Bush" <randy@psg.com>
> Cc: <xmlconf@ops.ietf.org>
> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 11:04 PM
> Subject: Re: netconf WG charter proposal
...
> >> The Netconf Working Group is chartered to produce a protocol
> >> suitable for network configuration, with the following
> >> characteristics:
> >>
> >>    - Provides a clear separation of configuration data
> >>      from non-configuration data
> >
> >is this necessary to the task?  clearly universally achievable?
>
> It was listed as an operator requirement at the NM workshop.
> It could be easy to achieve. It was never realized with SNMP.
...

As a property of the protocol per se?  It might be better to consider
it a property of the information model that should be represented
in the data model so that configuration management applications
can focus on the right bits.

Randy (the other one)



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