Re: [netmod] operational knobs

["Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn at mindspring.com>]

Hi -

> From: "Andy Bierman" <andy at netconfcentral.com>
> To: "Phil Shafer" <phil at juniper.net>
> Cc: "NETMOD Working Group" <netmod at ietf.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 10:26 AM
> Subject: Re: [netmod] operational knobs
...
> IMO, new verbs and nested data structures in notifications
> are the best parts of YANG.

Initially, we thought the same thing about these capabilities in CMIP.
Implementation and deployment experience demonstrated that they
came at a high cost, though in areas that netconf hasn't really started
to dig into.

> The config database may
> turn out to be a 'legacy' concept, and complex verbs may
> replace get/set operations on an XML tree someday.

If that's the case, then you may as well discard the whole notion
that configuration management is about bringing a system to a
reasonably known state.

Randy