[Netconf] 4741bis - validate

Martin Bjorklund <mbj@tail-f.com> Thu, 30 April 2009 13:56 UTC

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Hi,

This is the first of a couple of emails identifying some open issues
for 4741 bis.  I will do more some other day.


The problem is that it is unclear if <validate> with inline config
must be a complete config or some kind of "partial" config.  As has
been discussed earlier on the list and most recently in S.F., the way
it is defined, it must be a complete config.

A related problem is that inline validation of a complete config is
not very useful in real life (see
e.g. http://ops.ietf.org/lists/netconf/netconf.2006/msg01229.html).

Because of this, some implementations support a 'test-only' option to
edit-config
(http://ops.ietf.org/lists/netconf/netconf.2006/msg01206.html), which
can be used to validate partial edits to a given data store.

There are a couple of alternatives:

  1.  Keep :validate 1.0 as it is, and clarify that inline config must be
      a complete config.

  2.  As 1 + add a :validate 1.1 which adds the 'test-only' option.
      A server can advertise both 1.0 and 1.1 if it wants to.

  3.  Just describe a :validate 1.1 which adds the 'test-only' option
      and removes the inline config option.


If 1 is choosen, 'test-only' could be added in a separate capability
in another document.

Comments?


/martin