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 > (smaller) meetings, in extensive DT work after the IETF and > again after review on NGO list). Which is why it is now returned to the broader community for additional perspectives from those not already committed to a particular path > 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 that Rohan described based on RNG and Schematron seemed to me quite adequate to get the job done and the relatively large baggage introduced by defining another language (YANG) which is then translated into them seems wholly unnecessary. I appreciate that some people believe that YANG is more expressive and better suited for this particular purpose, but I didn't see any really convincing arguments of that (I certainly don't find the arguments in F.2 of draft-bjorklund-netconf-yang dispositive). Given what I know of the complexity of designing such languages, and of their ultimate limitations and pitfalls, this seems like a bad technical tradeoff. > If all you can tell us is that > we need to spend just more cycles on re-hashing the pros > and cons of many possible approaches, then I do not > see the usefulness of that discussion and with become > silent and leave your opion as one input to the IESG for > their decision making process. Unfortunately, it's not that simple. This is precisely the technical discussion that needs to happen in a public forum, not on some design team and then presented as a fait accompli. That said, I think I've stated my position as best I can and that while I understand yours, you and I just disagree about what the IESG should do, so I'll take your advice to become silent at this point. -Ekr _______________________________________________ IETF mailing list IETF@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf