[Nsi-wg] ietf NETCONF group

[Joan Antoni Garcia Espin]

Hello Guy, all,

i2CAT has practical expertise on Netconf derived from the Manticore
project (which Lars mentioned).

Indeed, as Eduard and myself commented on call conf the 17th of June,
Netconf was born as a new interface API for network *device*
configuration, not for whole networks. However, it is true that
Netconf's XML messaging eases network configuration, since the same
configuration pattern can be replicated on any box implementing Netconf
iface.

As a side note, it has to be noted that each manufacturer has its own
implementation of the messages. Juniper networks have pioneered Netconf
implementation in their devices and they've got pretty good
documentation [1].

I hereby copy an excerpt of RFC 4741 showing the abstract (full text in
[2]):
>>
   The Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF) defined in this document
   provides mechanisms to install, manipulate, and delete the
   configuration of network devices.  It uses an Extensible Markup
   Language (XML)-based data encoding for the configuration data as well
   as the protocol messages.  The NETCONF protocol operations are
   realized on top of a simple Remote Procedure Call (RPC) layer.
<<

My best regards,

[1] http://www-jnet.juniper.net/techpubs/software/junos/junos95/netconf-guide/netconf-guide-TOC.html 
[2] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4741 
-- 
Joan Antoni Garcia Espin
CTX, Fundació i2CAT



El dc 24 de 06 de 2009 a les 11:06 +0100, en/na Guy Roberts va escriure:
> Hi all,
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> Is anyone planning to go to ietf in July?   I am interested in the
> NETCONF working group as this has some similarities with NSI  (both
> are web service based interfaces for configuring networks).   From
> reading the RFCs it seems to me that NETCONF describes a method for
> configuring individual routers/switches rather than generic network
> based service requests.  It would be interesting to see if there is
> any opportunity to learn from their experience or even align our work.
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> If anyone is planning to attend ietf please let me know.
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> Thanks,
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> Guy
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