Re: 8.1) <get-all>

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

Hi -

> From: "Andy Bierman" <abierman@cisco.com>
> To: <tstoddar@utstar.com>
> Cc: "'Chen, Weijing'" <Weijing_Chen@labs.sbc.com>; <netconf@ops.ietf.org>
> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 9:03 PM
> Subject: RE: 8.1) <get-all>
...
> Because the documentation would either be vague or full of
> all kinds of special case sections, and we have to explain
> why most of the protocol operations don't make sense on
> most of the targets.
...

This kind of asymmetry is sometimes a sign that a problem
hasn't been factored correctly.  I think Ed Roskos' comment
is right on.  If you consider the grammatical structure of the
sentence "Get the running configuration" it's clear that "running"
serves to qualify "configuration", not "get".  If we try to push those
semantics into the verbs, we'll end up with strange asymmetries
and a system that will be unnaturally difficult to understand.

Randy



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