Joel: 
+1 to Joel's comments. 

As always, thank you for clarifying my feeble words,

Sue Hares 

-----Original Message-----
From: Joel M. Halpern [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2015 4:39 PM
To: Joe Clarke; Susan Hares; [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]; 'Alia Atlas'
Subject: Re: [i2rs] Call for Input from WG: I2RS error handling
simplification for initial I2RS protocol

In terms of making clear this constraint, I would expect whatever RFC
describes the protocol to be used for I2RS would indicate that although the
archtiecture requested the three behaviors, the current protocol only
supports "all-or-none."  Assuming we can find ways to use NetConf or
RestConf, I presume that will be an applicability / usage document rather
than a protocol definition document.

Yours,
Joel

On 10/15/15 1:17 PM, Joe Clarke wrote:
> On 10/15/15 11:45, Susan Hares wrote:
>> Yes - multiple sub-operation in RESTCONF requires a PATCH, and the 
>> burden is on the client to handle the backing out of data in 
>> RESTCONF.  You have hit upon the challenge.  The I2RS client is 
>> bearing the burden of this back-out instead of the I2RS agent 
>> (Netconf "server" concept).
>>
>> Do you think this is reasonable to keep the I2RS agents simple? Will 
>> it make the I2RS clients unworkable?
>
> I can't answer an behalf of all I2RS Client implementors, but it 
> doesn't seem like an undue burden.  It's just critical that they 
> understand that the burden is upon them.  How is this decision to be 
> communicated?  Will the architecture be updated?
>
> I assume that Agent implementors _could_ do the other two error 
> handling techniques if they wanted and advertise this to the Client?
>
> Joe
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