Re: draft-ops-mumble-conf_management-02.txt

["Luis A. Sanchez" <lsanchez@bbn.com>]

Brian,

> 
> Could the goals of this draft be interpreted as:
> (1) describe the process and issues of provisioning,
> (2) define provisioning requirements, and then
> (3) evaluate known methods for supporting provisioning
>     (stengths and weaknesses of current approaches).

- your interpretation of the goals of this draft is correct.

> 
> Is this design team chartered to determine and recommend
> whether cops-pr or snmp is the better approach?  Or is

- No.

> the goal simply to identify requirements for a policy
> provisioning mechanism.  

- from Bert...

Design Team for Requirements for Configuration Management

The design team has the following tasks:

1) Write a document that specifies the requirements for
   configuration management. This includes reuirements for a
   data model, information model, and protocols. The requirments
   should be specified such that current/future proposals
   can be evaluated.

2) Evaluate (and document such evaluation) the COPS-PR/SoPI
   and SNMP/SMI against these requirements.
   This task will produce a document that shows how well the
   current COPS-PR/SoPI and SNMP/SMI meet those requirements.
   In addition, potential changes will be listed to each of
   the 2 packages by which they would meet the requirements.

3) Evaluate implementation and deployment costs.
     -   Cost of implementation
     -   Time to implement
     -   Impact on Deployed systems
     -   Impact on management staffs


Luis