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Re: NETCONF modelled in UML

Indeed, and not tangential, this is equally true of CORBA IDL. 

More to the point though, I believe that the specification should focus on the semantics and syntax of the operations. The focus on the wire format is where I feel the specification is weakest.  

The software industry is not short of well defined XML RPC encodings
with readily available tool support, why invent another?

Regards

Nathan

On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 19:59, Randy Presuhn wrote:
> Hi -
> 
> 
> > From: "Andy Bierman" <abierman@cisco.com>
> > To: "Nathan Sowatskey" <nsowatsk@cisco.com>
> > Cc: <netconf@ops.ietf.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 10:14 AM
> > Subject: Re: NETCONF modelled in UML
> ...
> > These remind me of the ASI stuff in the SNMPv3 documents.
> > We should focus only on the semantics and syntax of messages
> > on the wire, and stay away from implementation interfaces
> ...
> 
> Although this is a tangential issue, this statement
> is too easily read in a way leading to serious
> misconceptions.
> 
> The ASIs are *NOT* implementation interfaces.
> RFC 3411 is abundantly clear on this point:
> 
>   The abstract service interfaces are intended to help clarify
>    the externally observable behavior of SNMP entities, and are not
>    intended to constrain the structure or organization of
>    implementations in any way.  Most specifically, they should not be
>    interpreted as APIs or as requirements statements for APIs.
> 
> Randy
> 
> 
> 
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