Andy, et. al., 

>> I cannot find any RFC text that says <running> has only nodes created by a 
>> client.
> 
> Really?  Interesting.   Still, I know it’s a mantra we’ve held closely for 
> many year, right?
> 
> No. Quite the opposite.  <snip>

There was a brouhaha back when I proposed the "keystore” draft have an “action” 
called “generate-private-key” that would insert the generated key into 
<running>.  Claims were made by prominent members of this list that it’s bad 
form for anything but a client to edit <running>.  

As a result, extensive effort was spent defining a mechanism enabling the 
generated key to be returned in the RPC-reply in an encrypted form (such that 
only the server that generated the key could decrypt it), all so the client 
could immediately return it to the server via a config push in order to 
preserve the sanctity of client read-backs.

If current claims were true then, why didn’t someone just say it’s okay since 
the server is acting like a client under the hood?

K.

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