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

Jeffrey Haas <jhaas@pfrc.org> Wed, 04 March 2015 20:38 UTC

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On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 03:29:17PM -0500, Jeffrey Haas wrote:
> From memory, NETCONF will support async operations.  RESTCONF will support
> asynchronous operations for Yang RPC.  

Kent Watsen corrects me in that netconf (section 4.5) current requires
pipelining RPC operations.  Things may still be submitted asynchronously,
but completion order is not independent.

-- Jeff