Re: [Gen-art] Genart last call review of draft-ietf-netconf-nmda-netconf-06

Alissa Cooper <alissa@cooperw.in> Wed, 26 September 2018 21:25 UTC

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From: Alissa Cooper <alissa@cooperw.in>
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Subject: Re: [Gen-art] Genart last call review of draft-ietf-netconf-nmda-netconf-06
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Christer, thanks for your review. I have flagged your first comment in my No Objection ballot since it seems like a good point to clarify.

Alissa

> On Jul 16, 2018, at 6:55 AM, Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 04:14:43AM -0700, Christer Holmberg wrote:
>> 
>> Minor issues:
>> 
>> Sometimes, when a draft updates an existing RFC, people ask whether
>> implementations not implementing the draft are still compliant with the updated
>> RFC. Based on discussions, the consensus seems to be that existing
>> implementations are still compliant, and if one wants to mandate the new
>> features a bis is needed. I would just like to confirm whether that applies
>> also to this draft. If so, perhaps a note indicating that would be useful, in
>> order to avoid discussions in future?
> 
> An existing NETCONF server not implementing NMDA is still compliant to
> the RFC 6241. However, a NETCONF server implementing NMDA (RFC 8342)
> has to implement this update to RFC 6241. Do you want to have this
> stated more explicitly? (We will have the same for RESTCONF and the
> NMDA update of RESTCONF.)
> 
>> Related to that, it would also be good to have an interoperability
>> statement, saying that implementations that implement the draft will
>> still work with implementations that do not.
> 
> This primarily concerns clients: They need to be able to fallback to
> using <edit-config> instead of <edit-data> and <get> instead of
> <get-data> if they communicate with a non NMDA NETCONF server. I am
> not sure whether this is a "SHOULD be able to fallback" or a "MUST be
> able to fallback".
> 
> /js
> 
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