RE: Thoughts on NetConf Requirements

["Hunkins, Andrew" <ahunkins@unimax.com>]

Agreed.  This stuff is all in higher layers.

I would be happy to work on a new or existing WG to that end.

-Andrew


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Randy Presuhn [mailto:randy_presuhn@mindspring.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 4:09 PM
> To: netconf@ops.ietf.org
> Subject: Re: Thoughts on NetConf Requirements
> 
> 
> Hi -
> 
> > From: "Hunkins, Andrew" <ahunkins@unimax.com>
> > To: "Andy Bierman" <abierman@cisco.com>
> > Cc: <netconf@ops.ietf.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 1:40 PM
> > Subject: RE: Thoughts on NetConf Requirements
> ...
> > 3. My definition of the management & sync layer is a *programmable*
> > layer that is tuned to fit the business rules of a 
> particular site.  It
> > includes complex scheduling procedures and semantic relations across
> > multiple devices of disparate purposes.  xmlconf has none 
> of this.  It
> > sounds like these are clearly placed in the hands of an 
> xmlconf client
> > application.  Am I missing something?
> ...
> 
> Such programmability is tied to the choice of an information model,
> at least for defining how one sets up schedules and rules, and how
> one names the objects to be manipulated.  The snmpconf and disman
> WGs have covered some of this functionality for SNMP.
> 
> However,
> I haven't seen any substantive discussion on either WG's mailing
> list of the prospects for doing netconf-supportive work.  As disman
> WG chair, I'd welcome such a discussion, but am not trying to
> stake any "turf" here, and am open-minded regarding the question
> of what existing (or new) WG might be an appropriate forum
> for actually doing such work.
> 
> Randy
> 
> 
> 
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