Hi Jamal,


On 5/22/14, 8:22 AM, "Jamal Hadi Salim" <[email protected]> wrote:

>On "open source availability"
>=======================
>The notion that because there is some open source implementation it
>qualifies some solution as legit is a red herring. 90% of IETF standards
>don¹t pass that smell test. There is no such requirement anywhere. There
>is *absolutely* no open source implementation of I2RS using
>netconf/restconf/yang. I *doubt* there is one in any organization
>anywhere on the globe. So this boils down to be a marketing gimmick in an
>engineering organization. Which is where my frustration comes in. Perhaps
>the starting point at IETF is to go back to the old days of implementing
>first as opensource variant, get cohesion around it and then
>standardizing.
>

Jeff¹s email states: "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.²

I don¹t think that Jeff is saying that there exists an open source I2RS
implementation - he is saying that there is and *I2RS-like* mechanism in
open source (I think we all agree that NC/Y qualifies as *I2RS-like*). The
point is that these open source NC/Y implementations (there are multiple)
will provide developers and protocols designers with a platform (and a
starting point) that will allow them to extend the existing functionality
towards I2RS, and to quickly prototype new protocol functionality that
will be defined in the I2RS WG.

 

Thanks,
Jan

>

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