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Re: [Netconf] Solicit comments on inline action capability for NETCONF

Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> Tue, 17 July 2018 13:25 UTC

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From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de>
To: Robert Wilton <rwilton=40cisco.com@dmarc.ietf.org>
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Subject: Re: [Netconf] Solicit comments on inline action capability for NETCONF
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On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 08:08:47AM -0400, Robert Wilton wrote:
> Hi Qin,
> 
> Having read this draft, I can understand what the draft is proposing, but I
> don't currently understand why this is useful. Specifically, I don't find
> the example that is in the draft as compelling.  If the desire is to set the
> MTU and enable the interface as one configuration operation, then wouldn't
> the client just configure both mtu and enabled leaves at the same time.  Why
> is a separate action required here to enable the interface?
>

I have asked myself the same question multiple times. ;-)

If people want engineer transactions consisting of multiple
operations, then they should do this for combinations of _arbitrary_
operations. At the end, edit-config is just an operation like
edit-data or any other operation.

Personally, I do not think heavy weight transactions is the way to go
but if people want to engineer this, please make the solution at least
generic and not bound to edit-config or something like that.

/js

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