Hi,
we have just submitted a new Internet Draft regarding Peer-Mount, a
mechanism that allows to reference and incorporate information from
remote datastores. This will allow, for example, a network controller
to provide a federated datastore containing management data transcending
individual network devices without needing to keep this data
redundantly. You can find the draft here:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-clemm-netmod-peermount-00
The concept of Peer-Mount was in fact originally introduced several
years ago but not pursued further due to lack of interest and IETF use
cases at the time. It is being revived now, with a few modifications,
in light of IETF interest in network inventory, network topology, and
related use cases that have emerged since. Inevitably, these use cases
may lead to the need to incorporate some management data regarding
particular state or configuration that is already maintained on
networking devices into a holistic network-wide view. Unlike Schema
Mount, which allows to reuse existing model definitions by allowing them
to be instantiated in a local data tree, Peer Mount is aimed at
incorporating a local view of data subtrees that are remote,
authoritatively owned and maintained by separate systems.
We believe that this work belongs into Netmod, while the potential users
are in network inventory - hence we are cross-posting this to netmod,
ivy, and ccamp.
--- Alex (on behalf of coauthors)
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