Re: [Netconf] Netconf Light or Netconf for constrained devices

[Andy Bierman <[e-mail]>]

On 04/03/2012 02:29 AM, [e-mail] wrote:
> For someone recently coming to NETCONF, I would have thought constrained
> devices would include some or all of the following characteristics:
>
> * During development, prior to release, it would be good to
> incrementally add NETCONF functionality without the need to add
> deviation statements
>


This is the only use case I find puzzling.
In my experience, internal server releases to the NMS developers
never use deviations.  Partial functionality is often delivered,
but its scope and limitations are communicated out of band. (e.g., email).


> * Device with limited CPU
>
> * Device with limited memory
>
> * Device with limited bandwidth available
>
> * Device with limited power available
>
> An example of a device that could include most of these constraints
> might be found on a sensor net.
>
> Are there other constraints that need to be considered? Should any of
> these constraints preclude the use of NETCONF?
>
> If all of these can be successfully supported using vanilla NETCONF then
> guidance on how that could be achieved would be helpful.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jonathan Hansford
>
>


Andy