Re: How does XML help Network Operators

[Phil Shafer <phil@juniper.net>]

Andy Bierman writes:
>1) there are some I-Ds out there which attempt to document various
>   aspects of the requirements and the deficiencies in the current
>   SNMP approach. (e.g., draft-bierman-nm-observations-00.txt)
>   Some were presented to the IAB NM Workshop but have not been 
>   published as I-Ds.

When will these be available? Publishing a document as an I-D is
near instantaneous, right?

>2) it is not completely fair to expect people to propose concrete
>   solutions to various problems since there is no WG charter to
>   address, or WG to which the proposals should be directed.  

Perhaps it's not time to propose solutions but to share experiences
and find out what's worked and failed.  Considering the size of
the solution space, bounding the WG with a strong direction might
inspire confidence that useful technology will be delivered. Going
from "XML is good for encoding hierarchical data" to a detailed
solution is going to be difficult. The devil is in the details,
and in XMLCONF the details are legion.

>   One important
>   point worth repeating: XML can help provide a replacement for CLI
>   as a programmatic interface. 

Amen.

Thanks,
 Phil

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