Re: Incomplete XML Draft

[RJ Atkinson <rja@extremenetworks.com>]

On Tuesday, June 25, 2002, at 11:40 , Chen, Weijing wrote:
>  What we need is "the" standard
> interface that can support multitudes of management functions including
> configuration, fault, and performance of IP equipments.
Wei-Jing,

	I don't think anyone will see "THE standard interface that supports
all or most management functions for IP equipment" during my lifetime.

	I think SNMP will *not* go away.  I don't know how COPS/COPS-PR will
fare.  There are other things also used today -- I kind of doubt that all
of them would go away in future.

> Why can't XML took same approach:
> craft a common DDL (schema template, i.e. SMI), a common protocol
> (messaging, transport), then writing different data model (schema) for
> different things (config, trap, PM) as an ongoing continue work.
	One might eventually have a broader XML base than is being 
discussed here,
but one needs to start with the smaller, clearly focused work first, 
IMHO,
-- and avoid having a WG that has so much work to do that it doesn't 
deliver
anything.

IMHO,

Ran
rja@extremenetworks.com


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