Independence from Access Methods Data Models need to be independent of access methods „Talking to a device via SNMP || CLI || NETCONF || CORBA || XML-RPC || Batch Config Transfer“ is relatively insignificant in time/resources relative to designing-implementing-maintaining data models ... A clean data model of a 5000 managed objects device can be talked to in ANY of the above access methods provides the device has an agent that exposes the objects |