Re: [Netconf] a joint discussion on dynamic subscription

Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> Thu, 14 June 2018 09:57 UTC

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On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 10:37:46AM +0200, Martin Bjorklund wrote:
> 
> Also, I think it would be useful to draw a picture that demonstrates
> the roles:
> 
>       subscriber/client    receiver
>           |                   ^
>           | (1)               | (3)
>           |                   |
>           |                   |
>           v        (2)        |
>         server  ----------> publisher
> 
> (1) is creation of the subscriptionE; dynamic or configured
> (2) is implementation specific
> (3) is the delivery of notifications / event records
> 
> NOTE: the subscriber and receiver MAY be the same entity
> NOTE: for some transports, if (1) is dynamic, (3) is sent over the
>       same session as (1)
> NOTE: for some transports, the sevrer and publisher are the same entity

So why do we need the distinct role of a publisher?

> If we can agree on an architectural picture like this, the different
> transport docs can refer to this architecture and be defined related
> to it.   For example, the netconf transport doc can state that the
> publisher is always the same entity etc.

So we introduce the role of a publisher because of some transports
that do have a server? If the publisher is truely distinct entity from
the server (and the state it has), we may get interesting security
considerations to write.

/js

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