RE: NIM requirements/conventions for textual representations

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

To allow processing by computer programs was my main reason for wanting the
textual representation.  This doesn't disallow a graphical form - but
supplements it.  This is similar to what the DMTF does with MOF and XML and
VISIO/UML.

Andrea

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nim@ops.ietf.org [mailto:owner-nim@ops.ietf.org]On Behalf Of
> Juergen Schoenwaelder
> Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 12:12 AM
> To: david.durham@intel.com
> Cc: nim@ops.ietf.org
> Subject: Re: NIM requirements/conventions for textual representations
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> >>>>> Durham, David writes:
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> Dave> [Dave] And they don't. However, the requirements currently
> Dave> specify that there MUST be a textual representation for the
> Dave> model. This is the requirement I am double-checking with the
> Dave> list since not all representations need be textual.
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> A key requirement for me is that the model can be processed by
> computer programs. Graphical representations make that very hard. A
> textual representation is thus absolutely important for me.
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> /js
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