Re: Present day reality of COPS-PR
Ron Bonica <[email protected]>
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Paul,
Speaking as an individual contributor, I think that your analysis is on
target. Speaking as AD, I would support a motion to move the COPS
documents to HISTORIC.
Ron
Paul Duffy wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I recently had to do a quick eval re: COPS-PR viability. Please correct
> as needed, and thanks for your input.
>
> -----------
>
> COPS-PR seems a solution that was looking for a problem. It never
> really took off, for the following reasons....
>
> - most, if not all, of what could be done with COPS-PR/PIBs can be done
> with SNMP/MIBs. To do both is significant duplicated effort.
>
> - operators don't want binary PIBs, prefer ASCII based CLI-type interfaces.
>
> - key players (who?) withdrew from COPS-PR and PIB approach, claiming
> there was no market.
>
> - IETF has since gone down the path of Netconf and started discussion to
> make COPS-PR historical.
>
> - there are few, if any, significant deployments.
>
> AFAIK, there is minimal commercial or open source support.
>
>
> Cheers
>
>
>
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