Re: [netmod] operational knobs

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Shafer [mailto:phil at juniper.net] 
> Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 4:42 PM
> To: Romascanu, Dan (Dan)
> Cc: Juergen Schoenwaelder; Randy Presuhn; NETMOD Working Group
> Subject: Re: [netmod] operational knobs 
> 
> "Romascanu, Dan (Dan)" writes:
> >It was a political decision which resulted in parsing errors :-)
> 
> But couldn't the political decision have been reversed when 
> the tide of "not so simple variables" began to flow in?
> 
> Thanks,
>  Phil
> 

It was not that easy, and the success of the protocol was part of the
reason. It took a few years to realize that CMIP / CMOT will never
happen. By that time SNMP was working at least for some applications the
IETF needed, with security being the principal flaw the whole community
was told to focus for another few good years. You can consider SNMCONF
and SMIng as tentative to finesse the issue without rocking the boat of
the protocol. And then somebody said X-M-L !!

Dan
(apologizing for historical soapboxes)