NIM requirements/conventions for textual representations

["Durham, David" <david.durham@intel.com>]

Greetings,

I am wondering if the textual representations requirement should be left as
stated. Most of the people I've talked to consider UML (or a subset thereof)
a relatively agnostic way to represent the model. The textual representation
of that might as well be MIBs, MOFs, pure ASN.1, XML, etc. So perhaps, the
textual representation requirement should be rephrased to imply a textual
mapping of the UML. The real requirement then is that there should be
algorithmic mappings standardized for two or more of the most-loved data
representations. The NIM working group, then, would be responsible for
providing the standard mappings documents.

-Dave