Re: [Netconf] WG adoption poll draft-voit-netconf-notification-messages-01

On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 5:24 AM, Martin Bjorklund <mbj@tail-f.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I support the problem statement in this draft, but I have concerns
> with the proposed solution.
>
> Currently, the notification message is defined in RFC 5277, for both
> NETCONF and RESTCONF.  It has a non-exensible header, and I agree that
> it would be good to fix that.
>
> We have a set of notfication-related documents that are supposed to
> replace RFC 5277, to make it more flexible.  I think that one of the
> documents in this set (not sure which one) needs to properly define a
> new notification message, and introduce an extensibility mechanism for
> the header.  Then a followup document (like
> draft-voit-netconf-notification-messages) can use this extensibility
> mechanism to define more common header fields.
>
> On another level, I'm also worried that this becomes a kitchen-sink of
> various headers that may or may not useful.  I would prefer an
> initially small set of well thought-through headers, and work from
> there.
>
> I would like to see these concerns addressed before the WG adopts this
> document.
>
>
I agree these issues need to be addressed.

Many other protocols have these properties:
  1) ability to add headers over time in separate RFCs
  2) ability to identify mandatory vs. optional property (even if nothing
else understood)
  3) ability to skip over unknown optional headers

> /martin
>
>
Andy

>
> Kent Watsen <kwatsen@juniper.net> wrote:
> >
> > All,
> >
> > This is start of a two-week poll on making the following draft a
> > NETCONF working group document:
> >
> >   draft-voit-netconf-notification-messages-01 [1]
> >
> > Please send email to the list indicating "yes/support" or "no/do not
> > support".  If indicating no, please state your reservations with the
> > document.  If yes, please also feel free to provide comments you'd like
> > to see addressed once the document is a WG document.
> >
> >
> > [1] https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-voit-netconf-
> notification-messages-01
> >
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Kent (and Mahesh)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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