Dear all,

-  Arguably the biggest shortcoming
   of SNMP for those applications concerns the need to rely on periodic
   polling, because it introduces additional load on the network and
   devices, is brittle in case polling cycles are missed, and is hard to
   synchronize and calibrate across a network, making data obtained from
   multiple devices less comparable.

The DISMAN WG produced in the past the RFC 2981 and RFC 2982 to avoid the 
polling issue,
but the event and expression MIBs never took off. These were hard to configure


-
   A Subscription Request for one or more YANG subtrees made by the
   Subscriber of a Publisher and targeted to a Receiver.  A Subscription
   MAY include constraints which dictates how often or under what
   conditions YANG subtree updates might be sent.
   ...
   An Update provides object changes which have occurred within
   subscribed YANG subtree(s).

Is this always a subtree? Could it a single leaf?

- You should have requirements in the terminology section, specifically as you 
have a requirement section.

   A Subscription Request for one or more YANG subtrees made by the
   Subscriber of a Publisher and targeted to a Receiver.  A Subscription
   MAY include constraints which dictates how often or under what
   conditions YANG subtree updates might be sent.

- On the use of MUST, SHOULD, etc. keywords in requirements document, it's 
preferable to use lower case because these are not RFC 2119 keywords.
The alternative is to stress the specific meaning of those keywords in this 
document.

-
   A Subscriber MAY provide QoS criteria to the Subscription Service
   such that if the Subscription Service is unable to meet those
   criteria, the Subscription should not be established.

   A Subscription Service SHOULD be able to interpret Subscription
   Requests QoS Policy requests, and only establish a Subscription if it
   is possible to meet the QoS those QoS Policy requests.

At first glance, I thought you wanted to have a one-way delay type of end to 
end QoS metric
(between the subscriber and publisher). This is complex.
Then I saw:
   A Subscription Service SHOULD be able to negotiate QoS criteria for a
   Subscription.  Examples of QoS criteria MAY include reliability of
   the Subscription Service, reaction time between a monitored YANG
   subtree/object change and a corresponding notification push, and the
   Subscription Service's ability to support certain levels of object
   liveliness.

You want to be precise with the QoS definition scope in this document.
It's only when I read section 4.2.6 that I understood your QoS definition.
In the end, I believe a forward pointer is all that is needd

- What about the notion of time in pub/sub?

One typical problem with SNMP polling is polling different variables at the 
same time (interface counter, QoS counter, for example).

This is solved in SNMP by combining those OID in a single PDU. How is it done 
with pub/sub? Actually, the right question is: what is the requirement?

-

   If on-change updates were
   requested with a dampening period, the minimum acceptable dampening
   period SHOULD be included,

What if the dampening period is different per subscriber?
Aren't we adding extra states to the device?

-

   A Subscription Service SHOULD support different transports.

   A Subscription Service SHOULD support different encodings of payload.

Don't you want to start with a single one, for interoperability reasons? At 
least for the encoding?

For the transport, I could agree with the reliability aspects in section 4.2.6.3


Regards, Benoit

A few editorial comments below.

- capitalize NETCONF, RESTCONF

- OLD:

    These refinements include: periodicity of object updates, filtering
    out of objects underneath a requested a subtree, and delivery QoS
    guarantee

  NEW:

    These refinements include: periodicity of object updates, filtering
    out of objects underneath a requested subtree, and delivery QoS
    guarantee

-

   YANG has gained acceptance as the data definition language of choice
   for control and management related information.
=> as the data modeling language of choice

- what is OMG/DDS in:
   With the support of standards bodies such as OMG (DDS),
   XMPP.org standard

Please a reference

-
   "HoweverRFC5277  <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5277>
   does not follow the Pub/Sub paradigm, does not allow the explicit
   deletion of subscriptions, and predates YANG."

You might want to expand on "predates YANG", expressing that RFC 5277 doesn't 
allow the monitoring of YANG objects



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