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

[Melinda Shore <[e-mail]>]

On 3/2/15 1:27 PM, Susan Hares wrote:
> This posts asks if we need to require a
> checkpoint to make asynchronous functions work.

Hi, Sue:  I don't really understand the question.  If you're
going to specify that there's going to be support for
asynchronous event processing, you need a model for that.  It
can be polling-based, callback-based, interrupt-based, and so
on, and what data structures you'll require will depend on the
model you choose.  That includes both for naming and for
coordination/scheduling.  I'm not sure exactly what you mean
by "checkpoint" (semaphores?  locks?) but it may actually be
out of scope - an implementation question.

At any rate the first place to start is with coming up with a
concurrency (or asynchrony) model, and then proceeding from
there.

Melinda