Working Group, We committed to spend the weeks following last session in London for IETF 89 to look at our proposed data modeling languages and protocols in more detail. While that conversation on the mail list didn't yield an explicit set of requirements (but thanks to Jamal for taking the first formal try at it), significant discussion occurred comparing and contrasting the benefits of FORCES and Netconf/Yang. Part of that discussion helped clarify gaps in both proposals that would need to be addressed for use by I2RS.
Each proposed mechanism had a few benefits in contrast to its counterpart, but none of these were overwhelming in scope. Our judgment of group consensus is that while both FORCES and Netconf/Yang could serve I2RS that there is substantially more support for the Netconf/Yang proposal. Part of this consideration includes elements of expediency such as existing open source tool chains and implementation experience of I2RS-like mechanisms in other organizations and vendors. Our near-term goals are to formally document the observed gaps in Netconf/Restconf and Yang with regard to I2RS uses and take them to their home working groups to be worked upon. After discussing this detail with our ADs, we can do so either in the form of documenting this upon the wiki or in the form of a requirements Internet-Draft. We welcome the chance to choose our form of agility for this effort. We will be forming a design team in the near future to work on the gap analysis and try to bring the necessary work to closure in short order. -- Ed and Jeff _______________________________________________ i2rs mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i2rs
