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

[Andrew Smith <andrew@extremenetworks.com>]

Jon,

> Policies are configuration information and not all policies will be
> applied by a person to all items filling a certain 'role' 
> using role in
> the policy context.  In the end some people have privaleges 
> that others
> do not.  The configuration management system we propose must deal with
> the fact that network wide configuration information (what people call
> policies) can not be applied blindly by a device to all instances of
> contained objects which match a particular set of roles.

I think this is where we disagree: I think it extremely important that we be
able to use a policy-role abstraction *without exceptions* that a device has
to take into consideration. As soon as you push the exception cases down to
the device we have lost all of the value of the policy-role abstraction. The
device *has* to be able to blindly apply the information with only the
policy-role to check against.

Andrew


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Saperia [mailto:saperia@mediaone.net]
> Sent: Monday, October 18, 1999 6:04 PM
> To: Weiss, Walter
> Cc: 'lsanchez@bbn.com'; mumble@ops.ietf.org; Jon Saperia
> Subject: Re: draft-ops-mumble-conf_management-02.txt

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