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

Martin Bjorklund <mbj@tail-f.com> Tue, 10 December 2013 19:42 UTC

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


/martin

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