Re: netconf WG charter proposal

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

Hi -

> From: "Andy Bierman" <abierman@cisco.com>
> To: "David T. Perkins" <dperkins@dsperkins.com>
> Cc: "Chen, Weijing" <wchen@tri.sbc.com>; <xmlconf@ops.ietf.org>
> Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 1:21 PM
> Subject: RE: netconf WG charter proposal


...
> He is saying (and I agree) that the XML data model does not
> have to use ifIndex to identify the interface.  The agent
> probably needs to know (internally) the ifIndex mapping for
> Ethernet0/0, but that doesn't mean that the XML data model
> must use it.
....

Not just the agent.  Management systems will also need to know
the mapping, and at least part of the mapping will need to
be known by the access control infrastructure.  If there are any
mid-level entities (as in snmpconf or possibly scripting engines)
they'll need to know the mapping, too.  What worries me is that
it won't be just one mapping.  The current discussion sounds as
though there's potentially a different mapping for every vendor,
perhaps for every kind of device, and at worst for every single
device.

Randy



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