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

Martin Bjorklund <mbj@tail-f.com> Thu, 12 December 2013 13:37 UTC

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Subject: Re: [netmod] AD review of draft-ietf-netmod-system-mgmt
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Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 12:42:57AM -0800, Randy Presuhn wrote:
> > sysName (think IDN) might also be worth thinking about.  There was a long
> > debate
> > about this a while back; I don't know what current thinking is.
> 
> sysName is defined like this:
> 
>             "An administratively-assigned name for this managed
>             node.  By convention, this is the node's fully-qualified
>             domain name.  If the name is unknown, the value is
>             the zero-length string."

Note that /system/hostname has different semantics - sysName is *by
convention* the *fqdn*.  For this reason, /system/hostname is not
mapped to sysName in the document.


/martin