Re: sming wg agenda proposal

[Andy Bierman <abierman@cisco.com>]

At 06:50 PM 11/13/2002 -0800, Randy Presuhn wrote:
>Hi -
>
>> Message-ID: <EDC461A30AC4D511ADE10002A5072CAD05656B39@orsmsx119.jf.intel.com>
>> From: "Durham, David" <david.durham@intel.com>
>> To: "'sming@ops.ietf.org'" <sming@ops.ietf.org>
>> Subject: sming wg agenda proposal
>> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 18:38:38 -0800
>...
>> Proposed sming wg agenda. Let me know if you would like time or want to
>> change below:
>...
>
>Any plans to discuss how this fits in with the xmlconf and
>configuration management discussions?  I know Andy has
>in other venues talked about the need to distinguish
>configuration data from other information.

xmlconf doesn't officially exist (yet).
There are a few additions I would like to make to SMIv3 in this area.
As you mentioned, one of them is to somehow identify objects as
configuration or 'state' data.  This is probably not as easy
as saying writable objects are configuration objects.

I would also like to add clauses that make it easier for tools
to generate XML Schema documents from SMIv3 MIBs:
  
XML-NAMESPACE "<URI>" would be a clause added to the MODULE-IDENTITY
macro to associate a namespace with the MIB module.

XML-NAME "<string>" would be a clause added to the ATTRIBUTE clause
(or higher level) of a TYPE or VAR macro to associate an XML element
name with an object.  If absent, then the object descriptor would
define the element name.  

There are probably other details that need to added to unambiguously 
convert an SMIv3 MIB to an XSD, to be determined later.


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Andy