Re: netconf WG charter proposal

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

Hi -

> From: "Phil Shafer" <phil@juniper.net>
> To: "Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn@mindspring.com>
> Cc: <xmlconf@ops.ietf.org>
> Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 10:40 AM
> Subject: Re: netconf WG charter proposal
>

> "Randy Presuhn" writes:
> >If the config/state distinction only shows up at the protocol level,
> >then we'll end up with the "device is configuration of record"
>
> Can you explain this a bit? I don't see one following the other.

If there is nothing in the information model or data model to
tell a management application (or developer!) which bits are
"configuration", the only way to find out is to ask the device.
Not exactly a good omen for provisioning a network.  :-)

Randy



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