Re: [Anima] Ted Lemon's Block on charter-ietf-anima-00-15: (with BLOCK)

[Ted Lemon <[e-mail]>]

On Oct 29, 2014, at 9:33 PM, joel jaeggli <[e-mail]> wrote:
> ...
> Additionally, management and optimisation of operational device
> configurations is
> expensive, tedious, and prone to human error.
> ...
> This WG is intended to mitigate this duplication of similar mechanisms
> and heavy
> dependency on human actions, in particular by facilitating secure
> closed-loop
> interaction directly between network elements to satisfy management intent.
> This motivates the introduction of a control paradigm where network
> processes,
> driven by objectives (or intent), coordinate their local decisions,
> autonomically translate them into local actions, and adapt them
> automatically
> according to various sources of information including external
> information and
> protocol information bases.
> ...
> 
> Speaks to the nature of managed, deliberately designed and laid out but
> automatically triggered set of autonomic actions.

OK, that helps.   I didn't really get that from the text, though.   How about:

 This WG will develop a system of autonomic functions that carry
 out the intentions of the network operator without the need for detailed
 low-level management of individual devices.   This will be done by providing
 a secure closed-loop interaction mechanism whereby network elements
 cooperate directly to satisfy management intent.

 The working group will develop a control paradigm where network
 processes coordinate their decisions and automatically translate
 them into local actions, based on various sources of information
 including operator-supplied configuration information and protocol
 information bases.

But what are protocol information bases?   do you mean MIBs and YANG schemas?