Also reminds me of CMIP and GDMO in old ITU network management standards in the mid 90s. They were RESTful, object-oriented, and you could make some pretty expr

Also reminds me of CMIP and GDMO in old ITU network management standards in the mid 90s. They were RESTful, object-oriented, and you could make some pretty expressive queries with them. The standards failed probably because they were way ahead of their times: too many new concepts, too complicated compared to SNMP, and the documents were a very boring read.