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Re: [Netconf] Reminder: Action by Dec 20th 2013 PLEASE: Draft charter after consensus call

"Alexander Clemm (alex)" <alex@cisco.com> Thu, 19 December 2013 19:49 UTC

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From: "Alexander Clemm (alex)" <alex@cisco.com>
To: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de>, ietfdbh <ietfdbh@comcast.net>
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To Bert's original question, I support this charter.

IMHO I think it is fine for RESTCONF and NETCONF be in the same working group.  If it causes confusion, perhaps a change in name for the working group can be considered (Protocols and transports for YANG datamodels in Netconf datastores).  I also think the wording of point 4 could be slightly improved, but this is a minor item ("4. Develop a RESTful protocol (RESTCONF) that provides a programmatic interface for accessing data defined in YANG, using the datastores  defined in NETCONF. " - I find the blurring between "programmatic interface" and "protocol" not very clear; isn't the goal not really a programmatic interface per se but to simply provide REST developers with a simple access to Netconf datastores for applications that do not require many of the richer services that are provided through Netconf?)

Thanks
--- Alex

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From: Netconf [mailto:netconf-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Juergen Schoenwaelder
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Subject: Re: [Netconf] Reminder: Action by Dec 20th 2013 PLEASE: Draft charter after consensus call

On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 12:41:26PM -0500, ietfdbh wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I agree with Dan that starting a RESTCONF effort in the same WG could 
> be destabilizing.
> I think it might be better to do this work in a separate WG that works 
> closely with NETCONF.
> 

While RESTCONF may be seen as a competitor to NETCONF by some, I think it does not matter at all where it is done in the IETF. In fact, I could easily find reasons why a separate WG could be seen even more as developing a competitor to NETCONF. To ensure that NETCONF and RESTCONF stay aligned and since to a large extend the same people are involved, I think doing RESTCONF in the NETCONF WG makes a lot of sense.

/js

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