Re: [Isis-wg] draft-amante-isis-reverse-metric-01

[Robert Raszuk <[e-mail]>]

Hi Tony,

Actually completely opposite :)

It seems clear to me that this is not NMS thing. They have tried hard 
and failed to deliver right solution for long enough.

I think this is our fault that we are still looking at networks from 
single box perspective as opposed to look at them from domain wide 
perspective (as starter).

So while we are at ISIS WG I would not mind if we would just run a new 
instance purely for network wide config making each router to be an NMS 
station. Call it C-ISIS. Example: instead of configuring links on the 
adjacent nodes configure link parameter anywhere, instead of configuring 
node at a node .. configure it anywhere.

Then we could go higher and start thinking about configuring services.

Many thx,
R.

PS.

/* After all we have many uses for ISIS today ... TRILL included :) */


> Robert,
>
>> Instead of working on network wide level config tool/protocol we
>> are extending protocols to achieve the equivalent functionality.
>> And this is not only in ISIS, we do the same in BGP, we do the same
>> in MPLS etc ...
>
>
> So, you're suggesting that we stop work on improving protocols until
> the NMS folks get their act together.
>
> This doesn't seem like a practical suggestion.
>
> Regards, Tony
>
>