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

----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Shafer" <phil@juniper.net>
To: "Andy Bierman" <ietf@andybierman.com>
Cc: "NETCONF Goes On" <ngo@ietf.org>
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 3:41 PM
Subject: Re: [NGO] NETCONF Data Modeling BoF (NDM) proposal

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> >I am quite frustrated with the progress that we have had using XSD.
> >At a previous WG meeting, Simon asked people who did not understand XSD
> >to abstain from a straw poll.  The count was 3 for, 3 against, 40+ abstain.
>
> But _all_ the votes where single digit for/against.  My worry is
> that this is a sign that folks have completely lost interest.  Which
> would be very bad news.
>
Phil

No, not lack of interest.  A year ago, I would have abstained but in the
interim, I decided I needed to master XSD and so have.  Ditto XPath, so earlier
this year, I could see, from my general language knowledge, that an XPath
expression was malformed - now I could put it right.  So were I at the meeting,
I would not have abstained.

It takes time for skills to be seen to be needed and then time for them to be
acquired; what prompted me was partly the work in the IETF but as much the
number of courses being offered by commercial trainers.  If others are acquiring
the skills, I need to too.  (Of course, there is always the time I spent on OSI
in 1986-1988 for which I still look forward to the payback).

Tom Petch

> Thanks,
>  Phil
>
>
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