Christer, thanks for your review. I have flagged your first comment in my No Objection ballot since it seems like a good point to clarify.
Alissa > On Jul 16, 2018, at 6:55 AM, Juergen Schoenwaelder > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 04:14:43AM -0700, Christer Holmberg wrote: >> >> Minor issues: >> >> Sometimes, when a draft updates an existing RFC, people ask whether >> implementations not implementing the draft are still compliant with the >> updated >> RFC. Based on discussions, the consensus seems to be that existing >> implementations are still compliant, and if one wants to mandate the new >> features a bis is needed. I would just like to confirm whether that applies >> also to this draft. If so, perhaps a note indicating that would be useful, in >> order to avoid discussions in future? > > An existing NETCONF server not implementing NMDA is still compliant to > the RFC 6241. However, a NETCONF server implementing NMDA (RFC 8342) > has to implement this update to RFC 6241. Do you want to have this > stated more explicitly? (We will have the same for RESTCONF and the > NMDA update of RESTCONF.) > >> Related to that, it would also be good to have an interoperability >> statement, saying that implementations that implement the draft will >> still work with implementations that do not. > > This primarily concerns clients: They need to be able to fallback to > using <edit-config> instead of <edit-data> and <get> instead of > <get-data> if they communicate with a non NMDA NETCONF server. I am > not sure whether this is a "SHOULD be able to fallback" or a "MUST be > able to fallback". > > /js > > -- > Juergen Schoenwaelder Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH > Phone: +49 421 200 3587 Campus Ring 1 | 28759 Bremen | Germany > Fax: +49 421 200 3103 <https://www.jacobs-university.de/> > > _______________________________________________ > Gen-art mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/gen-art _______________________________________________ Gen-art mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/gen-art
