Re: [netmod] operational knobs

["Romascanu, Dan (Dan)" <dromasca at avaya.com>]

Title: RE: [netmod] operational knobs

-----Original Message-----
From: netmod-bounces at ietf.org on behalf of Phil Shafer
Sent: Sun 11/1/2009 6:01 PM
To: Joel M. Halpern
Cc: NETMOD Working Group
Subject: Re: [netmod] operational knobs

"Joel M. Halpern" writes:
>While I do not know what the right answer is for YANG, let's not get too
>distracted by the SNMP answer.  The mechanism used for this sort of
>thing by SNMP is a kludge designed to work around the limitaiton where
>the only operations were get and set.

[Clearly an aside, but as a non-snmp dude.....]

I've always been curious why new verbs weren't added to SNMP
instead of this kludge.  Poking bytes into control registers
clearly wasn't the example to follow and the distaste for it
seems universal, but I've never grok'd why verbs like CREATE,
DELETE, LOCK, CHANGE, PRE-CREATE, DISABLE, &etc weren't made.

Thanks,
 Phil
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The short answer is that SNMP was designed to be the light (and temporary!) alternative to CMIP which had 11 'verbs' (if I remember well) including some of the ones you mentioned.

The long answer requires a few beers :-)

Dan