Re: Incomplete XML Draft

[Ted Goddard <ted.goddard@windriver.com>]

On Tuesday, June 25, 2002, at 01:39 PM, RJ Atkinson wrote:

> > We already have standard protocols for
> > moving arbitrary data around.
> ...which many operators don't believe are useful for configuring 
> network equipment.
>
>
> > The charter that Ted proposed makes much more sense, and will result 
> > in some amount
> > of standards-based configuration management.
> ...which will likely be as widely ignored by operators as the current 
> SNMP approach,
> because it doesn't solve the problems that many operators are saying 
> they have today.
Could you elaborate on some of the central issues you see that make
existing standards unusable?  It would certainly be nice to take what's
right with SNMP, fix what's wrong with it in building the foundations
of a new protocol, and end up with a widely used system ...

Thanks,
Ted.


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