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Re: [core] some comments on netconf-adaptive-subscription

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Fri, 25 June 2021 14:49 UTC

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Subject: Re: [core] some comments on netconf-adaptive-subscription
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Andy Bierman <andy@yumaworks.com> wrote:
    >> If bandwidth is at a premium, wouldn't you want to use
    >> draft-ietf-core-comi-11 (YANG in CBOR) rather than XML?  At which
    >> point, the obvious interaction with RFC7641 would need to be
    >> explained?

    > Commenting only on the use of CORECONF, not this draft...  IMO CORECONF
    > is for constrained devices, possibly on constrained networks.  But if
    > only the network is constrained, then perhaps only CBOR is really
    > needed.

CoAP/CBOR/etc. work well in less-constrained devices.
ESP32 now have several megabytes of flash, almost, but not quite 640K of RAM (520K).
Meanwhile router control plane CPUs are often way beyond this today.

    > I first raised these issues in NETCONF WG in 2013
    > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-bierman-netconf-efficiency-extensions-00
...
    > IMO the WG missed the point of this draft, which was to preserve the
    > massive and expensive investment in the NETCONF application layer
    > already deployed. Just optimize the network traffic and not rewrite any
    > feature code.

I don't think it's too late, but I don't really understand the NETCONF
investment right now.  While I'm sure that each major router vendor has a
management platform like JUNOS, I've not seen it cross-vendor for real.
I also know ISPs who try stuff like JUNOS, and get frustrated and go back to CLI.
(Often without the discipline to do it well)

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Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF@sandelman.ca>   . o O ( IPv6 IøT consulting )
           Sandelman Software Works Inc, Ottawa and Worldwide

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