Re: [netmod] Notifications with state data reference

2018-03-08 Thread Juergen Schoenwaelder
On Thu, Mar 08, 2018 at 09:08:42AM +0100, Michal Vaško wrote: > Hi Juergen, > thanks for an answer. I realized that validation of such notifications could > be difficult because of the reasons you mentioned so I was rather questioning > the fact that it is allowed to have references to state data

Re: [netmod] Notifications with state data reference

2018-03-07 Thread Juergen Schoenwaelder
Dear Michal, I think the short answer is that the server replays notifications as they were was recorded. Operational state is about "in use" values and on many systems it is impossible to take a consistent snapshot of operational state and hence clients will have little chances to obtain consist

[netmod] Notifications with state data reference

2018-03-07 Thread Michal Vaško
Hi, in ietf-hardware [1] there are notifications defined that include leafrefs pointing to state data leaves. When the notification is generated, it is validated with regard to the current state data and if successful, the notification is then stored for possible future replay. Now, what happens