Re: [Netconf] Alexey Melnikov's No Objection on draft-ietf-netconf-nmda-restconf-04: (with COMMENT)

[Martin Bjorklund <[e-mail]>]

Hi,

Alexey Melnikov <[e-mail]> wrote:
> Alexey Melnikov has entered the following ballot position for
> draft-ietf-netconf-nmda-restconf-04: No Objection
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> In Section 3.2.1:
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>    Servers are not required to support all values in the "with-defaults"
>    query parameter on the operational state datastore.  If a request is
>    made using a value that is not supported, then the error handling
>    behavior is as described in ([RFC8040], Section 4.8.9).
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> This seems to be pointless, considering that the server already advertises
> support for the "with-defaults" capability. Can you maybe elaborate on which
> values are hard to implement (and thus likely not to be implemented)?

Yes you are right.  After discussing this with my co-authors, we
suggest that we simply remove this paragraph.


/martin