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

On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 01:28:59PM -0700, Andy Bierman wrote:

> <soapbox>
> I am not against a new DML for NETCONF.
> I just want to get started on standard data models,
> and use XSD while a new DML matures enough to co-exist
> and perhaps eventually replace XSD.
>
> I used to think the 'XSD appinfo' approach would be a total hack,
> and 'brand new everything' would do the job better.  Now I think
> of XSD as the underlying assembly language of XML tools.
> It is now common practice to use an 'in-house' DML that make
> XML data modeling possible for humans, and generates write-only XSDs
> for tools.  (Got one myself ;-)
>
> So instead of getting rid of XSD, we should use it as the low-level
> machine readable common language, and some <appinfo> extensions
> in the ASM code may look ugly, but they will get the job done.
> </soapbox>

So you suggest to standardize data models in assembler code?

Or do you suggest to standardize informal englisch prose information
models that everybody can turn into their favourite NETCONF data
modeling language to produce some assembler that hopefully is
interoperable?

Something else?

/js

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