Jeffrey Haas <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 09:00:26AM +0200, Juergen Schoenwaelder wrote:

> > > It is noted, however, that introducing something like a secondary identity
> > > would require changes to SSH and/or TLS and may be somewhat difficult to
> > > make the case to the owning working groups.
> > 
> > I do not follow here. The secure transport delivers what NETCONF calls
> > a username, the identity of the NETCONF client. If this client acts on
> > behalf of another application (the secondary identity), then this
> > identity is meta data should be attached to the information submitted
> > to the ephemeral datastore. I do not see why this would lead to any
> > changes to SSH or TLS.
> 
> I tried to raise this as a question during the interim, but I think it was
> lost.  How should the meta-data be transported?

In general, NETCONF / RESTCONF with YANG supports the concept of
meta-data, and meta-data is in XML transported as an XML attribute.
(For JSON encoding see
http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-lhotka-netmod-yang-metadata-00.txt)


> > > Some discussion was given to the filtering considerations.  Extending the
> > > filtering options of the ietf-inet-types module may be appropriate.
> > > [Juergen, is this an action item for yang 1.1?]
> > 
> > The YANG 1.1 issue Y20 is about adding a set of built-in xpath
> > functions. I like to ask I2RS to tell us what functions they need. We
> > do have IP prefix-length matching on our radar. If other functions are
> > required, please let us know as soon as possible.
> 
> The primary ones I am aware of are operations on network addresses and
> prefixes.  Was netmod looking for an explicit manifest of such operations?

Yes this would help.


/martin

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