On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 11:37:57AM +0100, Ladislav Lhotka wrote:
> 
> I am not proposing to ban candidate or something but IMO it needn't be part 
> of the base NETCONF (or whatever protocol) spec.
>

Lets recall that candidate is a _capability_. Nobody is required to
implement it.

> A typical problem of candidate combined with NACM is that user A edits item X 
> and B edits Y in candidate. If B doesn't have write access to X and A to Y, 
> then none of them is able to make a commit.
>

The problem is caused by allowing users with inconsistent access
rights to both use candidate. So you get what you asked for. But I
assume you can still do <discard-changes> and recover.

/js

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