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Re: [NGO] NETCONF Data Modeling BoF (NDM) proposal

Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> Thu, 06 September 2007 18:44 UTC

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From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de>
To: Andy Bierman <ietf@andybierman.com>
Subject: Re: [NGO] NETCONF Data Modeling BoF (NDM) proposal
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On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 10:41:37AM -0700, Andy Bierman wrote:

> SMIv2 (for SNMP) provides many features that the IETF relies
> on to maintain an integrated and ever-changing mix of vendor
> and standard MIB modules.  There are many features
> unrelated to the SYNTAX or DESCRIPTION clauses, such as
> object and instance naming, module headers, definition importing,
> INDEX and MAX-ACCESS clauses, version control, and flexible agent
> conformance, which NETCONF does not currently address.  A NETCONF
> compatible data modeling framework is needed, which provides these
> important features.

[...]

> The NDM WG will not produce any new data modeling language.
> Instead, existing mechanisms such as Xpath will be used instead.

How is a "NETCONF compatible data modeling framework [...] which
provides [...] object and instance naming, module headers, definition
importing, INDEX and MAX-ACCESS clauses, version control, and flexible
agent conformance" different from a data modeling language?

/js

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