about channels

[William Caban <william@hpcf.upr.edu>]

The netconf draft define 3 channels:
-Management channel
-Operation Channel
-Notification Channel

Now, reading the draft "over SSH" the "management channel" can not be
supported and only define a "single channel" mechanism.

Since basically the definition on what is an actual channels (i.e. from
a developer point of view) is an open issue that is defined based on the
protocol it is encapsulated (i.e. ssh, tls, beep, etc), why not go with
a more specific definition for these and on protocols like ssh, TLS,
telnet a channel is just another parallel stream. Something just like
what happen with ftp and ftp-data ports.

Personally I like the "over BEEP" definition since it provides this
mechanism over a single stream but for the others the same management,
operation and notification channels functionalities should be there.


-William
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William Caban <william@hpcf.upr.edu>
High Performance Computing facility
University of Puerto Rico


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