Re: [sunset4] IPR Disclosure Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd's Statement about IPR related to draft-ietf-sunset4-gapanalysis

[Mikael Abrahamsson <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, 12 Sep 2017, Lee Howard wrote:

> And now I find that translation is available, 
> https://encrypted.google.com/patents/CN106612196A?cl=en Which suggests 
> that a client may request resources. So I wonder if this is related to 
> on-demand IP provisioning?

A quick read through (I hate "patent code") seems to indicate that this 
patents basically "DHCP but over NETCONF/RESTCONF", where one use-case is 
NFV provisioning (over NETCONF) based on this interaction to provision the 
needed resource.

"NETCONF protocol is the Internet Engineering Task Force (Internet 
Engineering Task Force, IETF) NETCONF working group launched a new network 
configuration protocol (Network Configuration Protocol), NETC0NF in the 
role of network management similar to the simple network management 
protocol (Simple Network Management Protocol, SNMP) for network interface 
and data transmission between devices. In a network environment, the 
resource manager is used to centrally manage multiple resources of network 
devices, such as Internet Protocol (IP) address pools and forwarding 
entries. The NETCONF protocol is used between the resource manager and the 
network device. The resource manager can allocate resources to the network 
device based on the NETCONF protocol. The current allocation of resources 
there is a waste of resources."

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson    email: [e-mail]