Agree with Andy and Randy.

> On Dec 17, 2015, at 3:45 PM, Randy Presuhn <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Hi -
> 
>> From: Robert Wilton
>> Sent: Dec 17, 2015 1:12 PM
>> To: Andy Bierman
>> Cc: "[email protected]"
>> Subject: Re: [netmod] NETMOD WG LC: draft-ietf-netmod-opstate-reqs-01
> ...
>>    Your requirement is a bit too strong for my liking.
>> 
>>    To paraphrase your requirement text, it is forcing that all
>>    compliant NETCONF/RESTCONF servers MUST support any clients that do
>>    not want to differentiate between intended config and applied
>>    config.
> 
> Do do otherwise sound to me like an interoperability disaster,
> and would encourage the "siloization" of toolsets.
> 
>>    However, this requires all opstate aware servers:
>> 
>>     - To handle a mix of clients, some of which are opstate aware, and
>>     some that are not.
> 
> This seems perfectly reasonable.  To do otherwise torpedoes the very
> notion of interoperability.
> 
>>     - To potentially handle a mix of requests, some of which are
>>     opstate aware requests, and some are not.
> 
> Ditto. 
> 
>>    It also prevents:
>> 
>>     - Having a server that is implemented to only support opstate aware
>>     clients.
> 
> Avoiding the creation of such servers sounds like a *good* thing to me.
> 
>>     - Having a server side configuration knob to control the behaviour
>>     (since it would affect the semantics for all clients).
> 
> This also sounds like something which it would be desireable to prevent.    
> 
> I think I'm squarely with Andy on this one.
> 
> Randy
> 
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