Robert Raszuk wrote: > > I understand that historically we had/still have SNMP however I have > never seen this being mandatory section of any standards track document. > Usually SNMP comes 5 years behind (if at all) making it obsolete by design. > > NETCONF is great and very flexible communication channel for > provisioning. However it is sufficient to just look at number of ops > lists to see that those who tried to use it quickly abandoned their > efforts due to complete lack of XML schema from each vendor they happen > to use or complete mismatch of vendor to vendor XML interpretation. There seems to be a network management protocol in active use for CPE networking gear: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TR-069 that is based on SOAP (ie WebService using XML). -Martin