Re: I-D ACTION:draft-kulkarni-netconf-subagent-prot-00.txt

[Andy Bierman <ietf@andybierman.com>]

Wijnen, Bert (Bert) wrote:
> Not sure if WG chairs agree to discuss this draft on this list.
>
> I did a very evry quick browse.
> Looks to me that we need to see example scenarios on how this
> woprks with chaninging (i.e. configuring) a device/system.
> How are the locking mechanims handled in that case?
>
> The subagent approach for gets is relatively easy I think, but the
> problems may arise when we want to modify data... 

The WG is not going to standardize a sub-agent protocol,
not only because there are more important issues already
in the queue, but because this is a very agent implementation
specific problem.

The complexity required for robust <edit-config> support
is just huge.  And what about special RPCs like <reset-interfaces>
which might be implemented across multiple sub-agents?

The notion of a "standard" agent callback implementation design
is not something we are ready to think about (or even should
think about in this WG).


> Bert

Andy

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> > 	Title		: NETCONF Master-agent Sub-agent Communication
> > Protocol
> > 	Author(s)	: J. Kulkarni
> > 	Filename	: draft-kulkarni-netconf-subagent-prot-00.txt
> > 	Pages		: 16
> > 	Date		: 2006-10-2
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> > This memo contains a mechanism by which NETCONF server and client can
> > extended to operate in a master-agent sub-agent scheme.  It extends
> > the base NETCONF protocol with additional NETCONF operations,
> > describes the protocol for this interaction and provides error
> > messages exchanged during this interaction.
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