RE: netconf WG charter proposal

["Chen, Weijing" <wchen@tri.sbc.com>]

David,

I think that a better CLI is one of important goals, and it will remain so.
But network management is more than configuration.  XML shall help out in
those areas.



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-----Original Message-----
From: Harrington, David [mailto:dbh@enterasys.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 2:26 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?

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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