RE: notification charter proposal

["Hector Trevino \(htrevino\)" <htrevino@cisco.com>]

Back from vacation and just catching up on these discussions...

I think that option "a" is sufficient, however, option "b" could also be
included for those users that feel application level confirmations/acks
are needed. 

Hector

 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-netconf@ops.ietf.org [mailto:owner-netconf@ops.ietf.org] On
Behalf Of Juergen Schoenwaelder
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 9:20 AM
To: Phil Shafer
Cc: Sharon Chisholm; netconf@ops.ietf.org
Subject: Re: notification charter proposal

On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 10:42:17AM -0500, Phil Shafer wrote:
> Juergen Schoenwaelder writes:
> >c) The notification sender sends a notification and gets a
confirmation
> >   that an entity dealing with notifications actually understood the
> >   semantics associated with the notification.
> 
> Dumb question:  what does one do with a system that supports you 
> option (c)?  If I sent a notification, the receiver tells me my 
> semantics are off, then what happens?  I resend?  I resend to another 
> target?  I auto-correct my semantics?  Are there realistic options 
> that I have as a non-intelligent notification sender?

If you talk to a person, you can get back either

a) nothing
b) "I heard you"
c) "I understood what you were saying"

It of course depends on the smartness of the whole system how you react.
Some humans are fine when they achieve b), some other implementations
feel better if they know they have achieved c).

Sure, implementation complexity goes up from a) to c) and the added
value of c) might not be worth the extra effort it causes. So perhaps
the decision is between a) and b).

/js

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