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Re: [secdir] [i2rs] Asynchronous Nature of the I2RS Protocol - vs RESTCONF and NETCONF

Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> Fri, 06 March 2015 19:21 UTC

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From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de>
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Subject: Re: [secdir] [i2rs] Asynchronous Nature of the I2RS Protocol - vs RESTCONF and NETCONF
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On Fri, Mar 06, 2015 at 01:04:34PM -0500, Jeffrey Haas wrote:
> > 
> > Thanks, this all makes sense. So there is a viable mechanism to create
> > a sequence of linked edits. The main trade-off, however, between a
> > single atomic edit and a sequence of linked edits is who is taking the
> > pain to cleanup the mess if things fail in the middle. If you write a
> > client, you love the server to do it. If you write a server, you love
> > the client to do it. ;-)
> 
> It's all pain, but some component has to deal with it.
> 
> I'm glad that restconf seems to have this situation covered, Andy.  Is there
> a similar mechanism in netconf that I've missed?  If so, this completely
> deals with the need for i2rs to have to ask for anything new. :-)
>

I think the NETCONF solution is more geared towards a single
transaction solution, i.e., you can ship stuff into the candidate
datastore and then commit the whole change set in one go.

/js

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