Re: [Netconf] netconf call home connection type

Martin Bjorklund <mbj@tail-f.com> Wed, 22 August 2018 08:59 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Netconf] netconf call home connection type
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Kent Watsen <kwatsen@juniper.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> >> I also suggest that the default connection strategy either is 
> >> dropped, or changed to "on-demand".
> >
> > This was discussed at the IETF 102 meeting (see attached slide and
> > lines 329-335 in the minutes).  Essentially, folks want to add a
> > "periodic" feature enabling the initiating peer to optionally
> > support periodic connections.  As such, I don't think it should
> > be the default.
> 
> Adding onto this, we could drop the default, and make the parent
> "choice" be mandatory true.
> 
> Actually, since we're adding a feature for "periodic", we might
> want to also add a feature for "persistent".  This would be
> similar to how we're having features for both keystore-supported
> and local-keys-supported.  Thoughts?

I don't think that we need features for these mechanisms.  Both should
be quite trivial to implement.



/martin