Re: [OPS-AREA] Present day reality of COPS-PR

[Ron Bonica <rbonica at juniper.net>]

Paul,

Speaking as an individual contributor, I think that your analysis is on
target. Speaking as AD, I would support a motion to move the COPS
documents to HISTORIC.

                                Ron


Paul Duffy wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I recently had to do a quick eval re: COPS-PR viability.  Please correct 
> as needed, and thanks for your input.
> 
> -----------
> 
> COPS-PR seems a solution that was looking for a problem.  It never 
> really took off, for the following reasons....
> 
> - most, if not all, of what could be done with COPS-PR/PIBs can be done
> with SNMP/MIBs. To do both is significant duplicated effort.
> 
> - operators don't want binary PIBs, prefer ASCII based CLI-type interfaces.
> 
> - key players (who?) withdrew from COPS-PR and PIB approach, claiming
> there was no market.
> 
> - IETF has since gone down the path of Netconf and started discussion to
> make COPS-PR historical.
> 
> - there are few, if any, significant deployments.
> 
> AFAIK, there is minimal commercial or open source support.
> 
> 
> Cheers
> 
> 
> 
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