Re: [Netconf] FW: David Harrington's Discuss on draft-ietf-netconf-rfc4742bis-07: (withDISCUSS and COMMENT)

[Phil Shafer <[e-mail]>]

Juergen Schoenwaelder writes:
>Telling operators they
>can't use all user names say SSH allows is simply a broken idea.

Amen.  Making legitimate SSH user names illegal in NETCONF will
mean that vendors choose between allowing their customers to continue
to use odd user names and to enforce the NETCONF constraint at a
cost to their customers.  That's an easy choice.  So many initial
NETCONF implementations will enforce these constraints until customers
complain, at which time the constraints will simply be removed.

This will definitely not help interoperability, deployment, or
happiness.  And it helps teach people to ignore the constraints in
the RFC, where they really do not need any help.

Thanks,
 Phil