[Nml-wg] will there be IETF related activities at IETF Dublin?

[Victor Reijs (work)]

Hello all of you,

As you might know there is an IETF in Dublin this month and I was 
wondering if NML related activities will be there? Let me know (might be 
a reason to go).


All the best,


Victor

Victor Reijs (work) wrote:
> Hello all of you,
> 
> Evangelos Chaniotakis wrote:
>> I think both approaches have value, and are in fact very close but  
>> maybe we would like to  to differentiate between them?
> 
> Related to this, is a point I try to make more explicit. In some case 
> entities should have data for the actually configurated values and in 
> some cases one needs to provide the alternative values a parameter can 
> have (which could be provisioned).
> Perhaps one needs to distinguish here in different class or attrbiute:
> configuredValue
> possibleValue
> 
> Remember in some cases the existing network topology is not very handy 
> to determine a possible other network configuration. E.g. in the GLIF 
> environment most links were made by adding new physical entities 
> (interfaces, hops, etc.)...
> 
> So this is the difference between provisioning and configuration 
> management.
> 
> In most cases (but not always) provisioning is a human activity and I 
> think we will need to start realizing that such alternatives are possible.
> 
> An example; multiple Ethernet tagging method can sometimes be configured 
> through an interface (like for most switches: 802.3, 802.1Q, 802.1ad). 
> So these options exist in that 'node'/'hop'. And the choice is sometimes 
> depending on the type of service one needs to provide (e.g. one needs to 
> do 802.1ad on a trunk if one wants to provide 802.1Q to clients).
> 
> Another example; a network might advertise already its willingness that 
> it can do more functions. But these will need human interventation (like 
> an NREN is willing to change the interface to add the 802.1ah feature).
> 
> Perhaps people see the above as futuristic (real SF), but I think that 
> the NML should be able to cater for that idea which is part of the SF 
> (so in some way it should allow multi-value fields).
> 
> Hope I did not complicate things too much;-)
> 
> All the best,
> 
> 
> Victor
> 


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