Subject: [Netconf] Do we need <activate> to indicate start of alternate form of encoding? #1 (Was: Re: NETCONF Encoding)

From: Mahesh Jethanandani <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 17:14:51 +0000

Qin,

I would like to use this thread that you have started to track this as an issue, and thus the change in subject line.

Here is the text of the issue documented here - https://github.com/netconf-wg/binary-encoding/issues/1 <https://github.com/netconf-wg/binary-encoding/issues/1>

The -00 version of the draft proposed an explicit operation to indicate when the alternate form of encoding has been initiated.

An alternate suggestion (from Martin and previously by Andy) is for the server to advertise the list of encodings it supports, in no particular order, and for the client to advertise its encoding in the order it prefers as part of capabilities. Thereafter, the client picks the first common encoding from the list, and sends the message in the that form of encoding.

Unless, there are any objections, we will go ahead and accept the alternate suggestion, and update the draft to reflect it.

Cheers.

> On Mar 20, 2018, at 3:11 PM, Qin Wu <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> Hi, Mahesh:
> Good to see you drop activate, We have similar idea and share you drafted proposal. We can talk when convenient.
>  
> -Qin
> <Netconf encoding.docx>

Mahesh Jethanandani
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