[netconf] Comments on draft-jgc-netconf-privcand

["Joe Clarke (jclarke)" <[e-mail]>]

I mentioned some of this in chat (as my browser permissions were giving me a fit).  I support this work.  I think taken with the tracing and txid work it brings the possibility of more context and metadata to configuration changes.  I like the “git” aspects being pushed to the NETCONF/RESTCONF server.

I agree with Balazs that conflict resolution is important here, and I like the idea of using txid as a means to do this.  I don’t particularly like the auto-update approach, though.  I’d rather attempt a <commit> and find than an update and potential resolution is needed.

I was also going to make a similar comment to Quifang.  I would like to see the ability to delete a private candidate on commit.  If we care about the private candidate name (perhaps for tracing), I might want to do one type of change in private-add-exampleco1-vpn, commit it, and then have the candidate deleted so I can continue my session with a new private candidate for another change.

I suppose I can <delete-config> this to remove the old private candidate, but I’d like an extension to commit to do this at once (though not so much of a big deal).  I’d rather not have to disconnect and reconnect the session to perform this type of flow, though.

Joe