Re: [Netconf] {+restconf}/data vs <running>

Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> Wed, 26 September 2018 10:58 UTC

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Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2018 12:58:13 +0200
From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de>
To: Ladislav Lhotka <lhotka@nic.cz>
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Subject: Re: [Netconf] {+restconf}/data vs <running>
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On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 12:45:26PM +0200, Ladislav Lhotka wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> draft-ietf-netconf-nmda-restconf is silent about the relationship
> between the {+restconf}/data and the <running> datastore, and it cannot
> be deduced from RFC 8040 either, because it only says in sec. 3.3.1:
> 
>    This mandatory resource [{+restconf}/data] represents the combined
>    configuration and state data resources that can be accessed by a
>    client.
> 
> I think this is a serious omission.

We are not changing {+restconf}/data.
 
> Regarding draft-lhotka-netconf-restconf-transactions-00, I received a
> lot of criticism for changing the semantics of
> {+restconf}/data. However, I don't think it was the case: according to
> the above definition, it seems perfectly OK if {+restconf}/data
> represents combined configuration **from <staging>** and state data.

Perhaps people had the impression that your proposal changes
{+restconf}/data or that it should work with the NMDA solution.

/js

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