Re: Deja vu Again

[Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>]

> I just finished trying to read through the archive.....

i knew we should have not let you into the archive :-)

> And I see the same stuff that is over 14 years old being
> recycled again.

part of it is that we have learned more.  part is that the net
has grown enough to have qualitative differences.  part of it
is we think we're a lot smarter so need to learn similar
lessons over again.  the latter is my specialty.  i am sure
there are other reasons.

> Does using XML-based techniques really make a difference?

i have yet to be sold.  but this baby was pushed when i was out
of the room (no blame, no foul).

> Is part of reason for XML the old TEXT-based versus
> BINARY-based application protocol religious argument?

i smell a bunch of that.  if it looks like text, it must be
better.

> Defining operations differently than that SNMP operations
> affects the schema. Operations and schema go hand in hand.

and it will be fun having an underlying data model and
transforms on a device that speaks both.

> Someone, please briefly describe the core motivation for this
> new effort.

it's a test of our civility? :-)

i suspect there are things to be learned by exploring this path
a bit.  i even plan to do some xml reading before yokohama, but
amazon just back-ordered the second edition on me.

randy


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