Subject: [Netconf] review of draft-ietf-netconf-with-defaults-03

From: Ladislav Lhotka <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:30:50 +0200

Hi,

below are my comments to the draft.

Lada

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    General notes
    -------------
    The draft does a good job in explaining the existing approaches to
    defaults handling and provides a general framework that can be
    used with any of the approaches.

    Because of the chicken-and-egg problem, the draft also
    deliberately avoids any reference to YANG, and vice
    versa. However, since the consensus is (and I support it)
    to use the YANG module from Appendix A as normative instead of
    XSD, a section on interactions between YANG and :with-defaults
    capability seems appropriate and useful. In particular, the
    role of the 'default' statement should be explained, if there is
    any.

    Section 1
    ---------
    s/theses cases/these cases/

    Section 1.2
    ---------
    The "explicit" strategy needs more explanation, "explicitly set"
    can mean different things:
    - explicitly set within the same NETCONF session, or
    - within any NETCONF session, or
    - also by other methods (CLI, internal server scripts etc.).

    Section 2.5
    -----------
    The namespace URI for <with-defaults> element should be specified
    in the main text.

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Ladislav Lhotka, CESNET
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