Subject: [Netconf] Don't make with-defaults explicit mode mandatory

From: Balazs Lengyel <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:48:28 +0100

Hello,
During the last IETF the question was asked:

Should we make the explicit mode of with-defaults mandatory?

The proposal is:

Don't make it mandatory because
- it requires a change in the underlying database
- 1 bit of extra storage is cheap, BUT adapting an existing database and handling logic is 
EXPENSIVE
- Makes adapting existing device to Netconf much more costly

No changes will be made to the with-defaults draft due to this issue.

Balazs