RE: Begin WG Last Call: draft-ietf-netconf-prot-04

["Michael Hallgren" <m.hallgren@free.fr>]

> 
> Since the term "Expect scripts" only shows up in the section 
> talking about other things that may interact with NETCONF, we 
> could change the term to "CLI scripts", which should be clear 
> to all without an additional reference.
> Does that sound ok?

Positive, covering enough, simple enough. (Oups, sorry, very late 
but anyway first input.)

mh (as6453)

> 
> Rob
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-netconf@ops.ietf.org
> > [mailto:owner-netconf@ops.ietf.org] On Behalf Of Romascanu, 
> Dan (Dan)
> > Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2004 7:43 AM
> > To: Simon Leinen
> > Cc: Andy Bierman; netconf@ops.ietf.org
> > Subject: RE: Begin WG Last Call: draft-ietf-netconf-prot-04
> > 
> > Simon,
> > 
> > Unless I am the last person on the list learning about 
> this, I would 
> > suggest that a short note and an Informative Reference be added.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Dan
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Simon Leinen [mailto:simon@limmat.switch.ch]
> > > Sent: 28 November, 2004 5:41 PM
> > > To: Romascanu, Dan (Dan)
> > > Cc: Andy Bierman; netconf@ops.ietf.org
> > > Subject: Re: Begin WG Last Call: draft-ietf-netconf-prot-04
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Dan,
> > > 
> > > thanks for your review.  Here's a quick response to one of your
> > > questions:
> > > 
> > > > 4. Section 7.5 - what is an 'Expect script'?
> > > 
> > > From http://expect.nist.gov/ -
> > > 
> > >     "Expect is a tool for automating interactive
> > applications such as
> > >     telnet, ftp, passwd, fsck, rlogin, tip, etc. Expect 
> really makes
> > >     this stuff trivial. Expect is also useful for testing 
> these same
> > >     applications. [...]"
> > > 
> > > Operators use it a lot to script interactions with devices
> > that have a
> > > CLI (command line interface).  Expect scripts are often the
> > basis for
> > > specialized higher-layer tools such as configuration 
> control systems 
> > > (see RANCID, http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/).
> > > 
> > > The original "Expect" was written in Tcl, but there are
> > many variants
> > > of the idea, such as the Chat.pl, Comm.pl, and Expect.pm 
> modules for 
> > > Perl.
> > > 
> > > So when we talk about "Expect scripts", we usually refer to all 
> > > scripted usage of the CLI.  Which should gradually be replaced by 
> > > scripts that use NETCONF.
> > > --
> > > Simon.
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
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