On Apr 18, 2014:2:37 PM, at 2:37 PM, Andy Bierman <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Thomas Nadeau <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
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> On Apr 18, 2014:2:21 PM, at 2:21 PM, Jamal Hadi Salim <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
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> > On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Thomas Nadeau <[email protected]> 
> > wrote:
> >>
> >>        Why is that not useful? Because I didn't say I was in favor of 
> >> forces? *)
> >
> > Not at all. Your statement was more like a high five. It is ok to
> > raise your hand at
> > the meeting - but i was hoping the list would have more useful
> > technical discussion.
> >
> >> It IS useful to say that my company's products implement Yang/Netconf and 
> >> will support RestConf, >and therefore a derivative of those technologies 
> >> used for i2rs is preferred. We have no plans to >support any of the other 
> >> discussed options in i2rs such as Forces at this time.  The reasons are 
> >> >simple: our customers asked for Netconf/Yang models and as far as I can 
> >> tell, have no interest in >Forces.
> >>
> >
> > So again it boils down to "bussiness" reasons - am i wrong?
> 
>         Yes, but not in the way you imply. My company has implemented 
> Yang/Netconf because our customers have asked us to and because when we did, 
> they bought our equipment - not as you imply, because we think its cool. 
> There are a number of other major hardware vendors on this list that have 
> done the same. I think if you poll most of those vendors, you will find that 
> they generally don't  engineering resources to things that people don't buy.  
> Also, Open Daylight has gone with Netconf/Yang/RestConf as one of its primary 
> interfaces - there are dozens of vendors working on that project too.  As far 
> as I can tell, no one has done any programmable interface based on Forces 
> there.  That seems to be an overwhelming number of implementations that have 
> gone with yang/netconf/restconf.
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> 
> It would be just as valid for people to chime in "We already use ForCES"
> or "we use already OF-Config", as a reason to use it for I2RS.

        It would, and I think that is what the chairs are trying to assess so 
chime on in! 

        --Tom

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> Andy
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> > "we have an implementation of Yang/netconf";
> > "we are going to make it work for I2RS".
> > If thats the case - then lets just end the discussion.
> > I am hoping to get the answer to:
> > What are the technical requirements/arguements?
> > Why do i have to struggle so much in a technical environment like IETF for
> > someone to come out and say what the requirements are?
> >
> > I can assure you that i have no religious conviction that say it has
> > to be  ForCES.
> > Lets actually start with you showing me how netconf/yang meets the 
> > requirements.
> > Otherwise - please stop with the high fives.
> >
> >>        From my perspective, continuing to debate which protocol is derived 
> >> to become i2rs is a waste >of everyone's time.
> >
> > Whats the point to having a circus show in pretending we are trying to
> > get any consensus?
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>         I am not WG chair, so I will let Ed/Jeff comment on the circus. *)
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> > Its clear what people want from the meeting, and if you poll interested 
> > implementations you'll likely >get the same answer: yang/netconf/restconf.  
> > Lets please stop delaying i2rs and get some work >done here.
> >>
> >
> > When you go and ask people to raise their hands they will. You need to
> > ask them why
> > they are raising their hands. I am hoping this is not a staked
> > popularity contest.
> 
>         Well, at some point it does come down to running code and real, 
> deployed implementations, right?  As I said above, there are many real and 
> significant implementations of yang/netconf in the marketplace *today*. 
> Asking those things to be modified slightly isn't that big of a deal in order 
> to address the requirements. Implementing a completely new protocol is. I am 
> not totally against new protocols - its just that if we can achieve the goals 
> we have by hacking an existing implementation, that makes better engineering 
> and business sense.
> 
>         --Tom
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> >
> > cheers,
> > jamal
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