On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 1644, Juergen Schoenwaelder wrote:
> Am I the only one worried about this?
No.
I don't understand what is being proposed to filter the retrieval of configuration information. I have heard XPATH mentioned but I have not seen even a straw man proposal that suggests how it fits into the protocol.
Are we talking about the same problem?
You also wrote:
> (a) protocol operations (verbs) that have clear semantics
> (b) payload that is just data not does not define verbs
If I understood the previous work correctly the above two items are essentially what has been proposed in this working group in the past. The opposing proposal was the Weijing Chen (et. al.) (SBC) proposal where I believe verbs were included in the data. Weijing's proposal was shot down.
> (c) sequences of operations to achieve a complex edit/retrieval
> (d) if really necessary, add a compound operation to group things
> /js
Regards, /gww