Re: Ever onward

[Margaret Wasserman <margaret@thingmagic.com>]

Hi Juergen,

I dont' have a crystal ball, so I can't really say what the future
will hold...

This is not a religious issue with me at all.  If the WG prefers a
specific port for NETCONF/SSH, I'll be happy to include that in the
NETCONF/SSH spec.  Andy, Simon, do you think that we've reached
any consensus on this, one way or the other?

Margaret

At 09:21 PM 2/7/2004 +0100, Juergen Schoenwaelder wrote:

> >>>>> Margaret Wasserman writes:
>
> Margaret> Wes is, I guess, assuming that there are operators who might
> Margaret> like to distinguish between allowing CLI/SSH access to the
> Margaret> device and allowing NETCONF/SSH access to the device...  I'm
> Margaret> not sure why, because I am picturing a world in which both
> Margaret> interfaces can do the same things for the same users -- one
> Margaret> just provides a good human interface and the other a good
> Margaret> programmatic interface.
>
> This is your picture of the world. I believe that the world will
> change slowly and that for quite some time, we will see different
> functionality over the CLI and NETCONF interface, perhaps even
> forever. Anyway, I think it is a feature and not a bug to give
> operators a choice. Perhaps at some point in time, operators really
> want to block the CLI altogether. ;-)
>
> /js
>
> --
> Juergen Schoenwaelder               International University Bremen
> <http://www.eecs.iu-bremen.de/>     P.O. Box 750 561, 28725 Bremen, Germany


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