发件人: netmod [mailto:[email protected]] 代表 Sterne, Jason (Nokia - 
CA/Ottawa)
发送时间: 2018年11月6日 10:56
收件人: [email protected]
主题: [netmod] some comments on netmod-base-notification-nmda (validation after 
commit response, etc)

Hello,

The draft mentions that "It is possible that some configuration could not be 
applied to <operational> due to either validation issues, or missing resource 
etc."

But wouldn't validation errors cause an error response to the commit RPC? I'm 
not clear why there would be validation later in the commit/apply process that 
wasn't part of the decision to reply OK/NOK to the commit.


[Qin]:The configuration is written into running via commit operation, but 
commit operation doesn’t equal to validate operation. Validate operation is 
defined in RFC6241 to validate, e.g., candidate datastore or the <config> 
element containing the complete configuration in the edit config. But RFC6241 
doesn’t discuss how validate operation can be applied to intended or other NMDA 
datastore since NMDA is introduced after RFC6241 gets published.



As described in RFC8342 and figure 2 of RFC8342

“Whenever data is written

   to <running>, the server MUST also immediately update and validate

   <intended>.

“

So validate <intended> takes place after commit operation. It involves in 
configuration transformations to <running> before intended validation operation.

The draft also implies that the process of moving config from running -> 
intended -> operational is decoupled from the application of a candidate -> 
running.
- Do systems reply OK/NOK to a commit before config is moved from 
running->intended->operational ?
[Qin]: reply OK/NOK indicates whether configuration is written into running but 
doesn’t tell us whether validation performed on intended is success or failure, 
validate operation defined in RFC6241 on candidate datastore may be different 
from Validation operation on intended since it clearly happens at different 
stage, sure validate operation can be applied to intended, but no standards 
explicitly specify whether validate operation can be applied to intended.
This is something we can update in this document.

- If so, then maybe it isn't correct to have a username in the notifications. A 
specific user/session did the commit, but then if the commit process ends after 
candidate->running (i.e. the reply happens at that point), then isn't it really 
the system moving the config from running->intended->operational?
[Qin]: See above.
Jason
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