Hi,

I am not commenting on the solution proposals.
The document being discussed is the requirements document.
I agree with Juergen that backward compatibility needs to be an
explicit requirement.  Are you objecting to such a requirement?


Andy




On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Robert Wilton <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Andy,
>
> Please can you let me know whether you think that any of the three
> proposed solutions wouldn't meet this backwards compatibility requirement?
>
> draft-kwatsen-netmod-opstate-00 has some features that might be generally
> useful to NETCONF, like adding <get-state> support as defined in section
> 5.1, that I would expect could just be added to a future version of
> NETCONF.  Would a requirement that the solution is backwards compatible
> with existing implementations require that support for <get-state> must
> always be optional?  Or could a new version of the NETCONF protocol require
> that support for <get-state> is required?
>
> Thanks,
> Rob
>
>
> On 17/12/2015 16:06, Andy Bierman wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I agree with Juergen that this should be clear.
> It was discussed several times.  All existing protocol
> functionality for NETCONF and RESTCONF MUST continue to work
> for clients which do not choose to examine the differences between
> intended config and applied config.
>
>
> Andy
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 6:36 AM, Kent Watsen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> >>>I’m struggling a bit to understand what is motivating you to ask this
>> question.    That is, as a tool vendor, I wouldn’t think that any decision
>> made here would affect you immediately.   My expectations are that any
>> impact to YANG/NETCONF/RESTCONF would be backwards compatible, such that
>> implementations would only opt-in when needed - a pay as you grow
>> strategy.   But herein perhaps lies an unstated requirement, that the
>> impact to YANG/NETCONF/RESTCONF needs to be backwards compatible with
>> respect to existing deployments.  Did we miss it or is it too obvious?
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> It may be obvious for many of us but for the sake of completeness I
>> >> prefer to have this backwards compatibility assumption explicitely
>> >> stated.
>> >
>> >+1
>>
>>
>> [as a chair]
>>
>> As last call comment, there seems to be support for adding a requirement
>> to the opstate-reqs draft to state that solutions supporting said
>> requirements MUST be backwards compatible with respect to existing
>> deployments.  Do we have WG consensus to add this as a requirement to this
>> draft?  Are there any objections? Please voice your opinion before the last
>> call cutoff date (Dec 30).
>>
>>
>> [as a contributor]
>>
>>
>> I’m unsure if it makes sense to call it out in this draft, in that it
>> seems universally applicable, but I don’t see any harm in it either and
>> thus do not object.
>>
>>
>> Kent
>>
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