Re: [Time] Editor's proposed draft of TIME/LIME Problem Statement

[Melinda Shore <[e-mail]>]

On 9/7/14 4:30 PM, Tom Taylor wrote:
> 1.1 A Vision of Layer and Technology Independent Management

I just had a thorough read of a recent version of the problem statement
and I think that the terminology around the problem really needs to be
tweaked.  In some sense we've already got layer- and technology-
independent management, in the form of several highly modular protocols
that can convey management and/or configuration information for all
sorts of devices and protocols.  What's unique here is that there's
a proposal to path-couple management messages and possibly have them
intercepted by management modules in varying sorts of devices along that
path.  It's been proposed before (for example, I proposed it here:
draft-shore-nls-tl-06.txt) but has never been developed.  What's
significant about this proposal that it attempts to deal with managing
and diagnosing problems that may be related to topology, perhaps
without foreknowledge of topology or routing.

I'd try to be clearer about why this is interesting.  "Layer and
Technology Independence" is one aspect of it but not one that's
unique to this proposal.

Melinda