Re: Whitepaper on XML-based Network Management

[Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>]

> Yes, Randy, the backbone operators are members of the Text-based
> religious sect.

and we're the ones whose cash you want.  so start studying the religious
texts.  you might start with <draft-ops-operator-req-mgmt-00.txt>.

the enterprise operators are of the same mind, it turns out.  and yes, we
checked.  of course this should have been blatantly obvious from the fact
that the vendors do not see enough busine$$ to even code the snmp write
stuff to even make routers etc. configurable from snmp if someone wanted
to.

repeat as many times as necessary: 
    *EVERYONE* USES TEXT-BASED CLIs TO CONFIGURE ROUTERS ETC.

i guess i will bring that sledge.  woody, can you do a quick tee-shirt?
i'll help pay.

randy

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p.s. snmp get for monitoring is *heavily* used.  no arguing with that.