Re: Deja vu Again

[Andy Bierman <abierman@cisco.com>]

At 11:02 AM 6/27/2002, Randy Presuhn wrote:
>Hi -
>
>> Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020626171514.04980a08@fedex.cisco.com>
>> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 17:18:35 -0700
>> To: Randy Presuhn <rpresuhn@dorothy.bmc.com>
>> From: Andy Bierman <abierman@cisco.com>
>> Subject: Re: Deja vu Again
>> Cc: xmlconf@ops.ietf.org
>> In-Reply-To: <200206270008.RAA05515@dorothy.bmc.com>
>...
>> We should support real requirements.  Every vendor is going to need
>> their own namespace(s) and schemas, just like we have now with 
>> enterprise MIBs.
>...
>
>Gack.  At least with CIM/XML, whether it's a standard object
>definition, an extension, or something purely proprietary,
>it's still the same XML schema.  For every gizmo under the
>sun to have its own XML schema would be leaping in the wrong
>direction.

Maybe our terminology is out-of-synch.
The XML structure within a PDU is the same for everyone,
but some of the elements and their semantics will be different
from vendor to vendor.  How is this any different than
VENDOR-X-FOO-MIB and VENDOR-Y-BAR-MIB? The structure of a
varbind list in an SNMP PDU is the same in every case, but the
contents and the semantics of the contents are not the same.

This is what it means to standardize the mechanisms and not
the content.  This is better than legislating that the 
mechanisms will remain useless until standard content is
available.

Andy



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