Re: Evaluation: draft-ietf-netconf-ssh-05.txt to Proposed Standar d [I06-051127-0011]

[Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com>]

McDonald, Ira wrote:
> Netconf is at best a 'niche' protocol at present, because:
>
> (a) Netconf currently has no standard data models
>   

This has no bearing on the protocol.  We're not going to change ports
if/when this problem is solved.
> (b) Netconf currently is intended for use only with routers and
>     other intermediate network elements
>   

So what?
> (c) Netconf operations have fuzzy semantics, due to the lack of any
>     standard data models (e.g., "merge this blob with that blob")
>   

This is the same as (a).

> Therefore, Netconf in not plausibly a critical system service.
>   

That doesn't follow.  If device config gets shoved around it's a
critical system service - there are few more critical.

Eliot

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