Usenet 1994 January/usenetsourcesnewsgroupsinfomagicjanuary1994.iso/sources/std_unix/volume.19/text0111.txt

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From: [e-mail] (Ray Shwake)

The May, 1990 UNIX Review "Standards Report" describes an approach being
taken in the System Administration sub-group in which administration is
viewed "from the perspective of objects". Quoting from McCarron's article:

    P1003.7 will define the following classes of objects: User, Group,
    Device, Filesystem, Process, Queues, Queue Entries, Machine,
    System, Network, Authentication, Authorization, Software, and
    Backup. In addition, the group will define the attributes of
    these classes, the operations that can be performed on the classes,
    and the events that may apply to them.

Speaking as a past administrator, I (like the writer) find the approach
to be horridly theoretical and inconsistent with existing conventions and
standard practice. I had assumed that standard setting involved resolving
inconsistent current practices and approaches, rather than creating one
from scratch.

Perhaps someone involved in this group can bring us up to date, outline
the rationale behind this approach, where they intend to take it, etc.

(These sentiments expressed are those of the writer, not necessarily those
of his organization.)

Volume-Number: Volume 19, Number 115