[f-nsp] Pasting long configs using Console to MLX

[Simon Leinen]

Foundry might consider implementing NETCONF as specified in RFC
4741-4744 (the first two are the mandatory parts).  This is an IETF
protocol specifically designed to manipulate configuration of network
devices.  It includes a simple XML-based RPC mechanism with a few
operations like <get-config>, <edit-config>, <copy-config>, which
operate on conceptual configuration stores correspoding to
"running-config", "startup-config", etc.

The configuration snippets are assumed to be XML-shaped, although we
haven't really started to develop any standard configuration data
models in the IETF.  Vendors can start by defining a simple XML
wrapping around their native configuration language ("industry
standard CLI" in Foundry's case), or create XML-friendlier
configuration models.

At least Juniper (more so) and Cisco have running code for this.
-- 
Simon.
IETF NETCONF WG co-chair
http://www.ops.ietf.org/netconf/