Re: [Netconf] New WGLC for a proposed new WG Charter - respondBEFORE Sept 1st

Phil Shafer <phil@juniper.net> Tue, 21 August 2012 17:17 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Netconf] New WGLC for a proposed new WG Charter - respondBEFORE Sept 1st
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Kent Watsen writes:
>To me, ephemeral configuration is *config* that either goes to a special
>datastore or to the "running" datastore with an XML-attribute indicating
>that it's ephemeral.

I have a hard time using the term "config" for a route learned via
BGP or an address learned via DHCP.  This will be hopelessly
confusing to modelers and reviewers.

Thanks,
 Phil