Re: [netmod] operational knobs

[Andy Bierman <andy at netconfcentral.com>]

Phil Shafer wrote:
> "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?
> 

Bad decisions can still benefit from Newton's first law of motion :-)

At 10,000 feet, SNMP was succeeding at monitoring.
But on the ground, it was obvious (SNMPCONF, DIFFSERV-MIB,
APM-MIB, TPM-MIB) that we had reached the
upper bound of SMIv2/SNMP utility.


IMO, new verbs and nested data structures in notifications
are the best parts of YANG.  The config database may
turn out to be a 'legacy' concept, and complex verbs may
replace get/set operations on an XML tree someday.

> Thanks,
>  Phil

Andy