Subject: [netmod] some comments on netmod-base-notification-nmda (validation after commit response, etc)

From: "Sterne, Jason (Nokia - CA/Ottawa)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2018 03:55:53 +0000

Hello,

The draft mentions that "It is possible that some configuration could not be applied to <operational> due to either validation issues, or missing resource etc."

But wouldn't validation errors cause an error response to the commit RPC? I'm not clear why there would be validation later in the commit/apply process that wasn't part of the decision to reply OK/NOK to the commit.

The draft also implies that the process of moving config from running -> intended -> operational is decoupled from the application of a candidate -> running.
- Do systems reply OK/NOK to a commit before config is moved from running->intended->operational ?
- If so, then maybe it isn't correct to have a username in the notifications. A specific user/session did the commit, but then if the commit process ends after candidate->running (i.e. the reply happens at that point), then isn't it really the system moving the config from running->intended->operational?

Jason