Hi Juergen,

On 04/02/2014 09:27 AM, Juergen Schoenwaelder wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 02:31:33PM +0200, Hannes Tschofenig wrote:
>>>
>>> What matters most is reuse of data models. How you ship the data
>>> depends on many criteria. All I can say (since we did implement SNMP)
>>> is that SNMP works reasonably well on constrained devices.
>>
>> Unless you do all your tasks on an embedded device with SNMP (or a
>> similar protocol) it seems to be the wrong choice to me since you are
>> adding one additional protocol to implement with functionality that
>> overlaps the other protocol.  You might have some experience that I have
>> not yet understood though (which caused me to start a discussion about it).
> 
> Yes, on our constrained devices, we actually do everything via SNMP
> (since reading some energy sensors is pretty straight-forward to do
> with SNMP). And yes, if you life in a CoAP world, you likely want to
> do as much as possible with CoAP. (But then I must admit that we also
> did implement mDNS since since it is just so cool to see your sensors
> popping up in your mDNS enables applications. Sometimes it is the ease
> of reuse of existing stuff that compensates some extra implementation
> costs.)
> 

Did you document that work somewhere? (an IETF draft or so?)


>>> But yes, if
>>> you live in a CoAP world, you may prefer to ship data via CoAP (once
>>> you have worked out the details). What would be a failure in my view
>>> is to redo the data models.
>>
>> That's an interesting perspective. What data models from the network
>> management community do you see most valuable?
> 
> If you want to expose basic counters related to your network
> interfaces or your IP stack or you want to expose your IP
> configuration, then I think we should try to reuse what we have and
> not reinvent the wheel. If RESTCONF can be mapped well to CoAP and
> constrained devices, this may be an interesting option.

I could see this data being of interest for a router/switch but not
necessarily for an end device.

Would you agree?

Ciao
Hannes


> 
> /js
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