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

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Greetings Robert,

On 07Dec2010, at 07.42, Robert Raszuk wrote:

> All,
> 
>> On a more serious note, it's important to recognize that in order to
>> mitigate human-error, we need to reduce the burden on operators to
>> "always get it right", as you seem to imply above, and certainly as
>> our executives (and customers) want us to.
> 
> Watching this thread with deep interest I must say that I am with Les here.
> 
> The problem is that this is nearly 2011 and we still do not have a good way to configure networks as an entire abstraction. We do at most - in sophisticated networks - have scripts to configure routers on a box to box basis.
> 
> 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 while I am not seeing any harm with this draft as is I think at some point we should put serious effort to look at the network as an abstraction layer and configure such abstraction layer rather then continue the trend of extending routing protocols to deliver equivalent functionality.

And the quest for that holy grail has been going on in this forum for well nigh 20 years.  When it comes, we will all bow down before it and celebrate for a solid year.  Until then, we have networks to run.....

:)

Chris

> 
> That IMHO would be the best way to address the "human error" issue.
> 
> Cheers,
> R.
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