Subject: Re: comments on notification-05

From: Andy Bierman <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 10:07:53 -0800

Martin Bjorklund wrote:
> I forgot one comment.
> 
> The schema for Named Profiles has been removed.  It seems a bit odd
> that this mechanism is defined as configuration data, but no schema
> (data model) exists for manipulating these Named Profiles.
> 

It is more than odd - it is broken.
The WG already decided (2 IETFs ago) that the named profile
must not be a pointer to unspecified contents.  The protocol
already has mechanisms for extending the standard
definitions with proprietary constructs.

There are essentially 2 solution paths here:

   1) remove named profiles completely.  The RPC method parameters
      are always passed at invocation time, without storing some
      of them 'offline' in a named-profile.

   2) define a proper standard data-model for the named profile contents,
      which is accessible to the standard operations (e.g., edit-config,
      get-config), and rooted at a specific point in the
      Netconf Standard Data Tree (that doesn't exist yet).

I thought we agreed on (2) awhile ago.
Perhaps this was just over-active cut-and-paste editing.

> /martin

Andy

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