These days, the NETCONF protocol has evolved as an XML-based standardization to meet the ever-pressing configuration management demands. And with the emergence of NETCONF, it is expected that a separate effort to study data modeling in the interest of network management should be undertaken. XML Schema and YANG have become two main candidate data modeling languages for NETCONF-based network management. This paper first analyzes the requirements for a configuration data modeling language, and tries to evaluate these two languages from the perspective of agreed requirements with the support of o...
