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Re: [netmod] AD review of draft-ietf-netmod-system-mgmt

Randy Presuhn <randy_presuhn@mindspring.com> Tue, 10 December 2013 19:44 UTC

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Hi -

>From: Martin Bjorklund <mbj@tail-f.com>
>Sent: Dec 10, 2013 11:42 AM
>To: randy_presuhn@mindspring.com
>Cc: netmod@ietf.org
>Subject: Re: [netmod] AD review of draft-ietf-netmod-system-mgmt
>
>Randy Presuhn <randy_presuhn@mindspring.com> wrote:
>> Hi -
>> 
>> >From: Randy Presuhn <randy_presuhn@mindspring.com>
>> >Sent: Dec 10, 2013 10:55 AM
>> >To: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de>, Martin
>> >Bjorklund <mbj@tail-f.com>
>> >Cc: randy_presuhn@mindspring.com, netmod@ietf.org
>> >Subject: Re: [netmod] AD review of draft-ietf-netmod-system-mgmt
>> ...
>> >I really like this idea, though I'm not sure which of the various
>> >ways of doing escape sequences would be most helpful.  For example,
>> >the &#mumble; convention of HTML would also be a possibility.  But
>> >whatever the mechanism, I think something like this would be a huge
>> >win.  (Note that there are obnoxious corner cases, such as the SNMP
>> >interface being used to configure an sequence which would, if interpreted
>> >as an escape, result in a forbidden or impossible code point.)  Still,
>> >I really like this idea.
>> 
>> To elaborate slightly: I like this idea as the basis for
>> a standardized approach (*not* merely a "MAY") to be used
>> whenever practical for migrating ASCII-only SNMP objects
>> intended for human consumption.
>
>Do you think the same applies to ifAlias?  I don't know if it is too
>late to change that object though.

Yes.  (Probably for both questions.)

Randy

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