Re: OPSAREA strategy

>From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dave CROCKER [[email protected]]
>Since the core reason for trying to have a single standard for a single function
>is to avoid the NxM combinatorial explosion problem, the obvious question is why
>operators haven't been enthusiastic about simplifying their data modeling world?
>
>One possibility is that the real-world locus of control rests with the vendors
>of the different models.  

Yes, vendors with market share.

>Hence, the operators really cannot influence things.
>To some extent, getting a critical mass of operators to band together might be
>able to change the dynamic.

When management standards becomes a become a barrier to entry to the market vendors will comply.
Cable networks  like [Euro]DOCSIS  or US Gov't come to mind.

Till then we'll live with one or more vendors in various market segments making decisions.
Which by the way creates significant revenue for system integrators to hook up
management platform version Y to device/application version Z.

Having been involved with the enterprise server market/virtualization the past few years, 
was entertaining to see all the new proprietary management protocols built on top of standard 
transports and encoding schemes following very loosely from 'standard' data models from 
other non-IETF organizations.

Mike MacFaden
VMware Engineering, Palo Alto, CA