[dfex]

Agreed - this is more or less the problem statement that OpenConfig was designed to solve (minus the making optimisation part), however the chicken-and-egg problem for vendors is always: few people are asking for it, because until every vendor supports it, only a few people will use it.

[ilyt]

Well, industry tried before with NETCONF, good luck...

[beams_of_light]

NETCONF doesn’t abstract anything though. All it did was provide a programmatic method for configuring devices.