RE: Methods in the NIM requirements

["Andrea Westerinen" <andreawest@mindspring.com>]

Comments inline.
Andrea

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nim@ops.ietf.org [mailto:owner-nim@ops.ietf.org]On Behalf Of
> Joel M. Halpern
> Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 12:18 AM
> To: nim@ops.ietf.org
> Subject: RE: Methods in the NIM requirements
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> I would consider an interesting separate question what real-time
> information the information model needs to represent.  We are not
> after all trying to take over the SNMP / RTFM job of deciding what
> statistics need to be collected.

<arw> I would not want to second guess what statistics are needed.  But, in
as much as an info model should reflect pertinent data in a
repository/protocol independent manner, you may include SNMP statistics and
other real-time data in the model. This makes independent reference to the
data possible, for use (for example) in policies.

> Once we have the requirements and language selected, an interesting
> question is whether we want to separately represent "should be" and "is"
> states about devices.  My first reaction is that we need to represent
> "should be" and that other systems already deal with "is".  Sorry for the
> digression, lets try dealing with the ducks in order.

<arw> I would agree that this is an interesting question.  But, my first
reaction would be different than yours.

> Joel
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> At 06:05 PM 4/29/00 -0700, Andrea Westerinen wrote:
> >... nor any real-time/dynamic DATA
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