Re: XCAP to Proposed Standard

Romascanu, Dan (Dan) wrote:
> The XML Configuration Access Protocol (XCAP) -
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-simple-xcap-11.txt
> developped in the simple WG is on the agenda of the 7/6 IESG telechat. 
> 

I looked this document over, which is not a review of any sort,
but I have a few questions:

1) Is this intended only for use with SIP?

2) Is there any access control model for securing data?
    (What is the security model?)

3) Is there a persistence model for data?
    (IMO there are problems with trying to abstract a NE device
     configuration as an XML document, and this is one of them)

4) The examples would be easier to read if the XML was pretty-printed.

5) In a general sense there is clearly overlap between NETCONF and XCAP.
    I think NETCONF tries to be more content and transport independent,
    and the RPC-based architecture is more suited to standard and vendor
    "specialized RPC" extensions, which provide a more natural
    programming paradigm than a model based on XML document manipulation.


Andy



> 2.1.2 Returning Item        Area Date  
>  RAI  The Extensible Markup Language (XML) Configuration Access Protocol
> (XCAP) (Proposed Standard) - 1 of 1 
>    draft-ietf-simple-xcap-11.txt [Open Web Ballot]  
>    Note: Note that this document was pulled from the RFC Editor queue
> and is returning with some changes, which are recorded in the tracker. 
>   Token: Jon Peterson 
>  
> Please let me know if there any questions or concerns until Wednesday
> 7/5 COB. 
> 
> Dan
>  
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