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Re: Service Provisioning [was: FW: [members] SPML v2.0 Submitted for OASIS Standard]

Romascanu, Dan (Dan) wrote:
Interesting. 
Did anybody do a comparative analysis between SPML and Netconf? If
somebody is asking when to use SPML and when to use Netconf, what is the
answer? 

I looked over this document:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/provision/spml-2.0-cd-01/pstc-spml2-cd-01.html

It looks pretty complete, and complex.
There is familiar terminology, like "targets" and "capabilities".
There are more powerful abstractions, like "batch", and it
is more object-oriented than netconf (which tries to be content-neutral).

There appears to be implementations from 3 companies,
all authors of SPML.  (BMC, Tripod, Sun)

It comes down to how much NM do you want to pay for.
IMO, netconf is more suited to embedded devices which are resource-sensitive, 
and do other things besides NM as their primary function.
SPML looks more suited to open systems, like Sun workstations,
with lots of resources for NM (probably the primary function of the WS).


Dan


Andy




-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ops-nm@ops.ietf.org [mailto:owner-ops-nm@ops.ietf.org] On Behalf Of Wijnen, Bert (Bert) 
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 11:20 AM
To: Ops-Nm (E-mail)
Subject: Service Provisioning [was: FW: [members] SPML v2.0 Submitted for OASIS Standard] 

FYI and possible comment

Bert

-----Original Message-----
From: Mary McRae [mailto:mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org]
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 03:33
To: members@lists.oasis-open.org; tc-announce@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [members] SPML v2.0 Submitted for OASIS Standard


OASIS Members:
The OASIS Provisioning Services Technical Committee has submitted the following specification set, which is an approved Committee Specification, to be considered as an OASIS Standard:
Service Provisioning Markup Language (SPML) v2.0 Service Provisioning Markup Language (SPML) v2.0 - DSML v2.0 Profile Service Provisioning Markup Language (SPML) v2.0 - XSD Profile 

The TC's submission is attached below.
In accordance with the OASIS Technical Committee Process, the specification has already gone through a 60 day public review period: 

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200510/msg00003.html
OASIS members now have until the 15th of March to familiarize themselves with the submission below. OASIS members should give their input on this question to the voting representative of their organization.
By the 16th of the month we will send out a Call For Vote to the voting representatives of the OASIS member organizations, who will have until the end of the month to cast their ballots on whether this Committee Specification should be approved as an OASIS Standard.
The normative TC Process for approval of Committee Specifications as OASIS Standards is found at 
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php#3.4

Any statements related to the IPR of this specification are posted at:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/provision/ipr.php

Mary

Mary P McRae
Manager of TC Administration, OASIS
email: mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org
phone: 603.232.9090

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PS TC Submission for SPML 2.0
1. Links to the approved Committee Specification in the TC's document repository, and any appropriate supplemental documentation for the specification, both of which must be written using the OASIS templates. The specification may not have been changed between its approval as a Committee Specification and its submission to OASIS for consideration as an OASIS Standard, except for the changes on the title page and running footer noting the approval status and date SPML 2.0 Package - http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/16695/pstc-s 
pml-2.0-cs-01.zip
2. The editable version of all files that are part of the Committee Specification; 
SPML 2.0 Package -
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/16695/pstc-spml-2.0-cs
-01.zip


3. Certification by the TC that all schema and XML instances included in
the specification, whether by inclusion or reference, including
fragments of such, are well formed, and that all expressions are valid; The XML examples in the documents and the SPML 2.0 schema are 
well-formed. We have run all of the examples through an XML
well-formedness checker. 4. A clear English-language summary of the specification; The specifications describe a mechanism for provisioning users, 
accounts, and services using SOAP web services. The specifications
include the basic Service Provisioning Markup Language 2.0 specification
as well as two profiles that define provisioning data models. One
profile, the DSML Profile, defines a DSML v2 based provisioning data
model. The other, the XSD Profile, defines an XSD based provisioning
data model.

5. A statement regarding the relationship of this specification to
similar work of other OASIS TCs or other standards developing
organizations; This work builds upon, but does not attempt to duplicate, the work of Several standards efforts. Including: 
 DSML v2 (OASIS Directory Services TC)
 SAML 1.1, 2.0 (OASIS SS TC)

6. Certification by at least three OASIS member organizations that they
are successfully using the specification; Certifications have been received from the following companies. We are 
including URLs that point to the certification statements in the e-mail
archive. BMC Software - http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/provision/200601/msg00001.html 
Tripod Technology Group -
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/provision/200601/msg00013.html Sun Microsystems - http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/provision/200601/msg00014.html 
7.  The beginning and ending dates of the public review(s), a pointer to
the announcement of the public review(s), and a pointer to an account of
each of the comments/issues raised during the public review period(s),
along with its resolution; The Public Review began on 03 October 2005 and ended on 02 December 
2005.

Here is the announcement of the Public Review
http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/members/200510/msg00003.html. 
The PS TC address all issues raised during the public review period.
This is found at:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/16502/Comments%20from%
20review%20period.doc.

8. An account of and results of the voting to approve the specification
as a Committee Specification, including the date of the ballot and a
pointer to the ballot; The Committee Specification Ballot was created on 26 Jan 2006 The results were 10=Yes (91%), 0=No, 0=Abstain The TC had 11 voting members The ballot is here: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ballot.php?id=945. 
9. An account of or pointer to votes and comments received in any
earlier attempts to standardize substantially the same specification,
together with the originating TC's response to each comment; This is the first attempt to standardize the SPML 2.0 specification. 
10. A pointer to the publicly visible comments archive for the
originating TC;
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/provision-comment/ 
11. A pointer to any minority reports submitted by one or more Members
who did not vote in favor of approving the Committee Specification,
which report may include statements regarding why the member voted
against the specification or that the member believes that Substantive
Changes were made which have not gone through public review; or
certification by the Chair that no minority reports exist. 
No such reports have been submitted.


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