> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harrington, David [mailto:dbh@enterasys.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 1:26 PM
> To: xmlconf@ops.ietf.org
> Subject: RE: netconf WG charter proposal
>
> Hi,
>
> I haven't seen anybody actually raise this point.
>
> If the CLI is currently the best mechanism to do configuration, but
> suffers from lack of standardization, why are we moving to XML? Why aren't
> we just addressing the problem of standardization of the CLI?
XML schemas allow one to represent the command structure from a programmatic point of view (i.e define logic, structure and data types). There are many APIs and parsers readily available today for XML. You would have to define the equivalent of an XML schema for CLI. XML also lends itself towards a WEB services interface (WSDL).
>
> Wouldn't it be simpler to standardize a CLI syntax and data model using
> existing ascii-style text and the associated tools, than to standardize an
> XML syntax and data model from scratch?
>
> dbh
>
> >Andy> - Uses a data representation that is easily manipulated
> >Andy> using non-specialized text manipulation tools
> >
> >So XML is out if I take that text serious. XML documents have
> >structure and to really operate on them, you need to have tools that
> >understand the structure. The good news is that there is an increasing
> >amount of such tools.
>
> >I will change the text to say XML will be used
>
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Brendan