IETF effort promises fewer net failures

摘要

The IETF has nearly completed a protocol that could address perhaps the major underlying cause of network breakdowns: misconfigured equipment. The thrust behind NetConf, which could be adopted by year-end, is to reduce the programming effort involved in automating device configuration. The goal is to generate better configuration tools and encourage faster updating of these tools when network equipment vendors upgrade the software on their machines, industry experts say.