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Re: Comments on draft-ietf-netconf-prot-00.txt
Hi Bob,
A SOAP binding is under consideration:
A SOAP Binding for NETCONF
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-goddard-netconfsoap-00.txt
The majority of draft-ietf-netconf-prot-00.txt describes the
NETCONF operations, and those certainly need to be specified,
whether web services or SSH is used underneath.
Regards,
Ted.
On Friday, September 5, 2003, at 11:30 AM, Robert Moore wrote:
Since I got "drafted" at the last minute to replace Dinakaran at the
interim meeting, I've been talking with some of our IBM Web Services
experts, to get their input on the protocol draft. Here's a summary of
their comments, based on a very quick look at the draft. We can make
their
full comments available in a few days, but the gist of them is that the
draft reinvents things that can be straightforwardly implemented using
standard Web Services mechanisms (especially WSDL and SOAP RPC) which
can
be run over BEEP in any case (RFC 3288). Inventing a completely new
solution would be duplication of effort and would lead to problems in
coordinating with related work in the GGF. Also, there seems to be no
reason why a reinvented XML RPC mechanism will be any smaller in
footprint
or runtime cost than a lightweight implementation of Web Services - in
fact
there might be scope for defining a Web Services Lite profile suitable
for
implementation in low end devices of all kinds. That would leverage
existing work (in GGF, OASIS and W3C) rather than duplicating it.
Also,
any mechanisms for automatically generating configurations from DMTF
CIM
models will work just as well if the target is WSDL rather than ad hoc
XML.
Regards,
Bob
Bob Moore
WebSphere Advanced Design and Technology
WebSphere Platform System House
IBM Software Group
+1-919-254-4436
remoore@us.ibm.com
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