On 27 Jan 2009, at 16:23, Ross Vandegrift wrote:
3) XML is far more complicated than SNMP with marginal benefits to a switching environment.
This whole message was a great read, and I'm glad you took the time to write it. On this particular point, though, I think you need to compare apples with apples.
XML is a data representation; SNMP is a protocol. It would make more sense to compare XML with ASN.1, in which case I'd assert ASN.1 is far more complicated -- to the extent that you don't think about constructing or parsing PDUs by hand, and instead use tools to do the job for you.
If you take the same approach with NETCONF and use tools to generate, validate and parse request and response documents, then I'd suggest that the difference in complexity boils down to how good your tools are.
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