+1 to Juergen's comments and diagram. Thanks, Rob
> -----Original Message----- > From: netmod <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Juergen > Schoenwaelder > Sent: 26 March 2019 08:23 > To: Joe Clarke (jclarke) <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [netmod] Question on draft-wu-netmod-factory-default > > On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 03:12:26AM -0400, Joe Clarke wrote: > > On 3/26/19 01:51, Juergen Schoenwaelder wrote: > > > Qin, > > > > > > the idea should be to make things simpler, not more complex. Perhaps > > > it is not necessary to expose N options to reset a device. Perhaps a > > > simple "factory-reset" RPC which resets all relevant datastores in > > > an implementation specific manner is sufficient. Why expose more > > > details to the management client? > > > > This would certainly make it simpler from the RPC standpoint. > > However, if one can <get-data> from the factory-default DSes, I still > > think there is a need to know what factory-default DS maps to what > > other DS (in the case where there might be multiple that are different). > > > > The notion of multiple factory-default datastores sounds complex. And what is > a > management application going to do with them? How would a management > application know which sets of datastores to reset together in a meaningful > way? > > My naive interpretation of the factory default DS (a single one) would be > that it > exposes the content you will find in <running> after the factory-reset has > been > executed. An extended version of Figure 2 of RFC 8342 would look like this: > > +-------------+ +-----------+ +-----------+ > | <candidate> | | <startup> | | <factory> | > | (ct, rw) |<---+ +--->| (ct, rw) | | (ct, ro) | > +-------------+ | | +-----------+ +-----------+ > | | | | | > | +-----------+ | | > +-------->| <running> |<--------+ | > | (ct, rw) |<----------------------------+ > +-----------+ > > And exposing such a factory default datastore would be optional I think. > > /js > > -- > Juergen Schoenwaelder Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH > Phone: +49 421 200 3587 Campus Ring 1 | 28759 Bremen | Germany > Fax: +49 421 200 3103 <https://www.jacobs-university.de/> > > _______________________________________________ > netmod mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/netmod _______________________________________________ netmod mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/netmod
