I can live with removing it entirely. Others had expressed that they felt it was important to include.

Yours,
Joel

On 6/1/16 7:48 PM, Linda Dunbar wrote:
Joel,

Does it hurt if this requirement is removed from the document?

To me, it is more to say needing a reliable communication channel between I2RS 
client and agent (which should be assumed with NETCONF protocol). Therefore, I 
don't think we need to have it in the I2RS Ephemeral requirement.

Linda

-----Original Message-----
From: Joel M. Halpern [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2016 6:13 PM
To: Linda Dunbar; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [i2rs] ephemeral requirements - REQ 08 bullet 1

Linda, the problem is that there is no such thing as an I2RS protocol, much 
less version 1 of such a protocol.  If I2RS is using NetConf, the protocol is 
NetConf.  If it is using RestConf, then that is the protocol.

Further, the exact mechanism to express what the agent can do over these 
protocols is defined by those mechanisms.

I can't argue with your observation that there is not much to the requirement 
as reworded.  I consider that it is not vacuous because it confirms that we 
need the relevant capability information.  I recognize that the NetConf and 
NetMod working groups have been very good about doing that.

My primary point, as I have said several times on the list, and saqid on the 
webex, is that the requirement as written was not a description of what we 
requried, but of a possible (and in my personal view incorrect) way of meeting 
the requirement.

Yours,
Joel

On 6/1/16 6:48 PM, Linda Dunbar wrote:
Joel,

The existing text and the proposed test mean different things to me. The 
existing text is to say support I2RS Version 1, whereas the proposed text 
states a very obvious statement.

If I2RS client didn't have the needed "communication mechanisms" to I2RS agent 
or can't decide if the communications mechanisms needed is supported, how can I2RS client 
even start to send commands to I2RS agent?

Linda

-----Original Message-----
From: i2rs [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joel M. Halpern
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2016 9:48 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [i2rs] ephemeral requirements - REQ 08 bullet 1

Existing Text:
1.  protocol version support for I2RS modifications - (e.g.  I2RS
        version 1)

Proposed Text:
1. Support for communication mechanisms to enable an I2RS client to determine 
that an I2RS agent supports the mechanisms needed for I2RS operation.


This probably is already met by existing NetConf mechanisms.  I think it is 
useful to state anyway, so that solution development will verify that it is met.

Yours,
Joel

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