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Re: Last Call: draft-levin-mmusic-xml-media-control (XML Schema for Media Control) to Informational RFC

On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 11:29:07PM +0100, Romascanu, Dan (Dan) wrote:
 
> To answer your question besides the fact that cross-area reviews are a
> good thing, I believe that it's useful for the NETCONF community to see
> how other protocols are using XML for management operations in different
> environments. 

Not sure this is such a great example (for whatever it is meant to
be an example). Let me quote from the abstract:

   [...] New implementations are discouraged from using the described
   method described except for backward compatibility purposes. [...]

I understand the problem here does not seem to be the XML fragment but
the usage of the signaling path - but then I am again not sure what
particular NETCONF lesson I am supposed to learn from this.

And since you specifically point to this document (and not at other
IDs that contain XML fragments where they sometimes also talk about
configuration), I am seriously concerned that people looking at
examples of the following instance XML document complexity

   <media_control>
      <vc_primitive>
       <to_encoder>
         <picture_fast_update/>
       </to_encoder>
     </vc_primitive>
   </media_control>

(yes that is all there is!) may draw wrong conclusions. My
understanding is that NETCONF is intended to deal with things as
complex as whole router configurations, different data stores, locking
semantics, commit mechanisms, failure handling mechanisms, validation
features, ... and from that perspective, I guess I should not have
looked at this document (and clearly not spent time writing this
email).

/js

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