Re: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod)

2008-04-25 Thread Bernard Aboba
I echo Tom Petch's concern. Given the level of deployment success of IETF management efforts for the last 5-10 years, I'd suggest that we need both customer pull as well as technical community push for such an effort to succeed. While there have been arguments made for the latter, I don't see

Re: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod)

2008-04-25 Thread Randy Presuhn
Hi - From: Bernard Aboba [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ietf@ietf.org Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 6:40 PM Subject: Re: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod) I echo Tom Petch's concern. Given the level of deployment success of IETF management efforts for the last 5-10 years, I'd

Re: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod)

2008-04-24 Thread Tom.Petch
- Original Message - From: David Harrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Eric Rescorla' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Bert Wijnen - IETF' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: ietf@ietf.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 5:49 PM Subject: RE: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod

Re: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod)

2008-04-24 Thread David Partain
Hi all, On Thursday 24 April 2008 09.22.22 Tom.Petch wrote: The people who believe that YANG is more expressive and better suited for this poarticular purpose include contributors to the design of SMIv2, MIB Doctors, members of the NMRG who helped develop the SMING information and data

Re: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod)

2008-04-24 Thread Bernard Aboba
I echo Tom Petch’s concern. Given the level of deployment success of new IETF management efforts for the last 5-10 years, I’d suggest that we need both customer “pull” as well as technical community “push” for such an effort to succeed. While there have been arguments made for the latter, I

RE: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod)

2008-04-24 Thread David Harrington
] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Rescorla Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 5:18 PM To: Bert Wijnen - IETF Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language

RE: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod)

2008-04-23 Thread David Harrington
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Crocker Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 12:04 AM To: Eric Rescorla Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod) Eric Rescorla wrote: Which is why it is now returned

Re: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod)

2008-04-23 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Eric Rescorla wrote: At Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:17:47 -0600, Randy Presuhn wrote: Our ADs worked very hard to prevent us from talking about technology choices at the CANMOD BOF. Our original proposal for consensus hums included getting a of sense of preferences among the various proposals.

Re: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod)

2008-04-23 Thread David Partain
Hi, I should probably just sit down and be quiet, but I have a few comments. On Tuesday 22 April 2008 23.56.40 Eric Rescorla wrote: At Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:16:02 +0200, Bert Wijnen - IETF wrote: instead of discussing if there was consensus AT THE BOF (we all know that at this point in time

Re: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod)

2008-04-23 Thread Eric Rescorla
At Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:39:13 +0200, Harald Alvestrand wrote: I congratulate the participants who worked on the charter on managing to have the discussion and come to consensus on an approach. I think it's up to Eric to demonstrate to the IESG that there's support in the community for

Re: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod)

2008-04-23 Thread Andy Bierman
Harald Alvestrand wrote: Eric Rescorla wrote: At Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:17:47 -0600, Randy Presuhn wrote: Our ADs worked very hard to prevent us from talking about technology choices at the CANMOD BOF. Our original proposal for consensus hums included getting a of sense of preferences

RE: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod)

2008-04-23 Thread Mehmet Ersue
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ext Andy Bierman Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 4:45 PM To: Harald Alvestrand Cc: ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod) Harald Alvestrand wrote: Eric Rescorla wrote: At Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:17:47 -0600, Randy

RE: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod)

2008-04-23 Thread Bert Wijnen - IETF
+1 Bert Wijnen -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mehmet Ersue Verzonden: woensdag 23 april 2008 17:30 Aan: Andy Bierman; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; ietf@ietf.org Onderwerp: RE: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod) Another +1

Re: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod)

2008-04-23 Thread Michael Thomas
Andy Bierman wrote: I don't think a formal WG process is needed to determine that the strongest consensus exists for the approach currently outlined in the charter. The 15 people on the design team represented a wide cross section of those actually interested in this work. I am among the 10

RE: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod)

2008-04-23 Thread David Harrington
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Rescorla I propose that you list (again) your (technical) objections to the the current proposal. Sure. Based on my knowledge of modelling/protocol description languages, the techniques

Re: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod)

2008-04-23 Thread Andy Bierman
David Harrington wrote: Here are my reasons why I support the charter, which align with yours: There are multiple types of users for data models. The operators and reviewers care about the semantic model much more than the syntactic mapping. Ease of use and stability have proven to be the

RE: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod)

2008-04-23 Thread Leslie Daigle
: David Partain CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; ietf@ietf.org Onderwerp: Re: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod) At Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:00:53 +0200, David Partain wrote: Greetings, On Tuesday 22 April 2008 18.10.10 Eric Rescorla wrote: I object to the formation of this WG

Re: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod)

2008-04-23 Thread Wes Hardaker
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:45:02 -0700, Eric Rescorla [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: ER I remain concerned that this is the wrong technical approach; it ER appears to me to be unnecessary and overcomplicated. However, it's ER clear that's a minority opinion, so I'll drop my objection to this ER charter.

Re: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod)

2008-04-22 Thread Eric Rescorla
I object to the formation of this WG with this charter. While there was a clear sense during the BOF that there was interest in forming a WG, there was absolutely no consensus on technical direction. Rather, a number of proposals were presented, but no strawpoll, hum, or sense of the room was

Re: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod)

2008-04-22 Thread Andy Bierman
Eric Rescorla wrote: I object to the formation of this WG with this charter. While there was a clear sense during the BOF that there was interest in forming a WG, there was absolutely no consensus on technical direction. Rather, a number of proposals were presented, but no strawpoll, hum,

RE: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod)

2008-04-22 Thread Bert Wijnen - IETF
2008 18:10 Aan: ietf@ietf.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: Re: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod) I object to the formation of this WG with this charter. While there was a clear sense during the BOF that there was interest in forming a WG, there was absolutely no consensus

Re: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod)

2008-04-22 Thread Eric Rescorla
At Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:08:49 -0700, Andy Bierman wrote: Eric Rescorla wrote: I object to the formation of this WG with this charter. While there was a clear sense during the BOF that there was interest in forming a WG, there was absolutely no consensus on technical direction. Rather,

Re: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod)

2008-04-22 Thread Randy Presuhn
Hi - From: Eric Rescorla [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ietf@ietf.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 10:10 AM Subject: Re: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod) ... Accordingly, if this WG is to be formed, the entire section (and corresponding milestones) which

Re: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod)

2008-04-22 Thread David Partain
Greetings, On Tuesday 22 April 2008 18.10.10 Eric Rescorla wrote: I object to the formation of this WG with this charter. For those who haven't been involved in the discussions to date, Eric has objected to this work from the very beginning, as far back as the first attempt to get a BOF and

Re: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod)

2008-04-22 Thread Eric Rescorla
At Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:14:10 +0200, Bert Wijnen - IETF wrote: Eric REALLY... Yes, really. I heard during that BOF that there was consensus to start the work. I also saw that quite a few liked the YANG proposal, and several wanted to have mappings to either XSD or RELAX or

Re: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod)

2008-04-22 Thread Eric Rescorla
At Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:00:53 +0200, David Partain wrote: Greetings, On Tuesday 22 April 2008 18.10.10 Eric Rescorla wrote: I object to the formation of this WG with this charter. For those who haven't been involved in the discussions to date, Eric has objected to this work from the

Re: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod)

2008-04-22 Thread David Partain
On Tuesday 22 April 2008 23.06.57 Eric Rescorla wrote: Perhaps that's true, but I don't see that that's an argument against actually running an open process rather than declaring a winner in advance and asking the IETF to ratify it.' Hi, There seems to be an underlying argument that we've

RE: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod)

2008-04-22 Thread Bert Wijnen - IETF
W.r.t. All this is great stuff, but it all happened after the BOF, so you can't reasonably claim that it represents BOF consensus. And since BOFs are our primary mechanism for open, cross area assessment for WG formation, I don't think it's accurate to suggest that this is anywhere as near as

Re: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod)

2008-04-22 Thread David Partain
On Tuesday 22 April 2008 23.14.01 Eric Rescorla wrote: The sum of all this verbiage is that, precisely as I said, there wasn't consensus at the BOF, but that there was some set of rump meetings where this compromise was hashed out. Greetings, And what will be gained by forcing us to jump

Re: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod)

2008-04-22 Thread Andy Bierman
Randy Presuhn wrote: Hi - From: Eric Rescorla [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ietf@ietf.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 10:10 AM Subject: Re: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod) ... Accordingly, if this WG is to be formed, the entire section (and corresponding

Re: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod)

2008-04-22 Thread Eric Rescorla
At Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:10:53 +0200, Bert Wijnen - IETF wrote: W.r.t. All this is great stuff, but it all happened after the BOF, so you can't reasonably claim that it represents BOF consensus. And since BOFs are our primary mechanism for open, cross area assessment for WG formation, I

RE: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod)

2008-04-22 Thread Bert Wijnen - IETF
]; ietf@ietf.org Onderwerp: Re: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod) At Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:00:53 +0200, David Partain wrote: Greetings, On Tuesday 22 April 2008 18.10.10 Eric Rescorla wrote: I object to the formation of this WG with this charter. For those who

RE: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod)

2008-04-22 Thread Bert Wijnen - IETF
Language (netmod) Randy Presuhn wrote: Hi - From: Eric Rescorla [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ietf@ietf.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 10:10 AM Subject: Re: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod) ... Accordingly, if this WG is to be formed, the entire

Re: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod)

2008-04-22 Thread David Partain
Hi all, On Tuesday 22 April 2008 23.14.03 Andy Bierman wrote: IMO, there is strong community consensus for the charter as it is currently written. There are several technical approaches, such as 'continue to write data models in XSD' which are technically viable, but have no community

Re: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod)

2008-04-22 Thread Eric Rescorla
At Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:16:02 +0200, Bert Wijnen - IETF wrote: instead of discussing if there was consensus AT THE BOF (we all know that at this point in time we DO have consensus between all the interested WORKERS in this space, albeit that the current consensus was arrived at in further

Re: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod)

2008-04-22 Thread Randy Presuhn
Hi - Our ADs worked very hard to prevent us from talking about technology choices at the CANMOD BOF. Our original proposal for consensus hums included getting a of sense of preferences among the various proposals. We were told we could *not* ask these questions, for fear of upsetting Eric

Re: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod)

2008-04-22 Thread Eric Rescorla
At Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:17:47 -0600, Randy Presuhn wrote: Our ADs worked very hard to prevent us from talking about technology choices at the CANMOD BOF. Our original proposal for consensus hums included getting a of sense of preferences among the various proposals. We were told we could

Re: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod)

2008-04-22 Thread Dave Crocker
Eric Rescorla wrote: Which is why it is now returned to the broader community for additional perspectives from those not already committed to a particular path Are they committed to doing the work? Do they have their own constituency? Since the topic is not new, where have they been and

Re: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod)

2008-04-22 Thread Randy Presuhn
Hi - From: Dave Crocker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Eric Rescorla [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; ietf@ietf.org Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 10:03 PM Subject: Re: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod) ... Are they committed to doing the work? The bulk of the work has been

Re: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod)

2008-04-21 Thread Chris Newman
--On April 15, 2008 13:30:01 -0700 IESG Secretary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod) I support the creation of this WG. 2. The YANG data modeling language and semantics (proposed standard) ... 5. Mapping rules of YANG to DSDL data modeling framework (ISO/IEC

Re: [NGO] WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod)

2008-04-21 Thread Phil Shafer
Chris Newman writes: The simpler (5) happens to be, the more confident I will become that YANG is following best practices for XML DMLs. My guess is the opposite: many of the more useful features of XSD and DSDL require distinct and uncomfortable layout of the schema material. For example,