Re: Separation of configuration and control - good or bad?

[Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com>]

Larry Menten wrote:
> With a transaction representation that allows the target of the operation
> to be named explicitly, offers an delete and add operation with an error
> return if the target does not exist, and the ability to group 
> sub-transactions
> into an atomic operation, locking becomes optional for many management 
> tasks.
You do an excellent job of qualifying your statements.  First, it 
certainly doesn't cover the ground for every task, such as change of IP 
address or the modification of an access-list.  But this was a question 
we deferred until we had some notion of a meta-data model.

Eliot


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