Re: [Netconf] comments on monitoring-08 draft

[Martin Bjorklund <mbj at tail-f.com>]

Andy Bierman <andy at netconfcentral.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I noticed that the 'transport' identity was replaced
> with a 'session-type' identity, and now the
> /sessions/session/transport leaf
> has been changed to a session-type leaf.  Yet no new
> standard identities were added, and no semantics were
> altered.

Right, this was just a name change of the identity.

> I object to this gratuitous incompatible change with -07.
> It looks like some tweaks to support proprietary data models.

I don't understand how changing the name of a data type is a tweak for
proprietary data models.

The only reason we changed this name was that the old name,
'transport' has too many connotations.  In NETCONF, SSH is a
transport, but for the purpose of this document we say that
netconf-ssh is a session-type.

> IMO, the vendor should augment the entry with a different leaf.
> I really want to know the transport, not some meaningless
> 'session type' that happens to look like a transport type.
> 
> Also, I thought we were going to make the get-schema/input/version
> parameter optional, and add a default=YANG to the format
> parameter.

I agree with you.

> Instead the /sessions/session/loginTime was
> changed to mandatory.

Do you think it should be mandatory false?  If so, why?  Should any
other leaf be mandatory true?


/martin