Re: netconf WG charter proposal

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

Hi -

> From: "Andy Bierman" <abierman@cisco.com>
> To: "Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn@mindspring.com>
> Cc: <xmlconf@ops.ietf.org>
> Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 4:03 PM
> Subject: Re: netconf WG charter proposal
...
> The actual format of an interface name, or circuit identifier,
> or whatever, is part of the data model problem, outside the
> scope of the protocol work.  It may be hard to get all vendors
> to agree on standard formats for strings in some cases.  It's
> not clear that all applications need to be capable of
> de-constructing these strings though.  They could be treated
> simply as system-unique string values, not globally unique
> multi-field structures.
...

The job of security administrator just got a lot scarier.  A
consequence of system-specific naming would be that
non-trivial access control policies would have to be built
system by system.  This is just one example.  Notification
filtering, logging, etc. will have similar challenges.  (If the
answer is to continue to use SNMP for those, then we're
still faced with the mapping problem.  If  we abandon SNMP
in favor of an XML-based mechanism for these, then we
need to ensure that we have *standardized* filter and log
management capabilities.

Randy




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