Re: Comments on draft-ietf-netconf-prot-00.txt

[Andy Bierman <abierman@cisco.com>]

At 11:00 AM 9/5/2003, Ted Goddard wrote:

>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.

agreed.

Bob, if you have a different proposal in mind than this one,
you need to publish a detailed I-D ASAP.


>Regards,
>Ted.

Andy



>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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