Re: Issue 9.4) Partial locks

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

On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 13:30, Andy Bierman wrote:
> >> 9.4.1) Partial lock proposal
> >I vote for it.
> 
> I'm the one that made the proposal, but now I think we should 
> defer work on partial locks because of the complexity.  IMO
> it is too difficult to implement partial locks across multiple
> access mechanisms (e.g., CLI, XML, SNMP) using an XML expression
> for the lock point.  This requires translation mechanisms between
> XML and other types of data models which are beyond the scope
> of this standardization effort (or maybe any effort).

You are right. It is a nice capability but very hard to implement across
all the mechanisms that might supported on a network device.


-- 
William Caban <william@hpcf.upr.edu>


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