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

[Wes Hardaker <wjhns1 at hardakers.net>]

>>>>> On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:14:14 +0200, "Romascanu, Dan (Dan)" <dromasca at avaya.com> said:

DR> In the absence of standards PIBs I suspect that the majority or all
DR> the deployments use one vendor tools

I don't think you can safely make that argument.  Personally, I have no
knowledge about how well COPS or COPS-PR or implementations of MIBs
are/were used.  But I think since the IETF functionally made all the
COPS folks mad by refusing to let them standardize their work (I'm not
saying whether this was right or wrong; it's simply fact) the end result
was all the COPS folks left the IETF.  If PIBs were indeed written they
certainly wouldn't have been standardized within the IETF.  Maybe the
IETFs push-back did really cause the technology to become unused.  I
don't know.  But I don't think you can use any metrics affected by IETF
actions to decide that.
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Wes Hardaker
Cobham Analytic Solutions