Re: capabilities exchange and pipelining issues

[Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@iu-bremen.de>]

On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 02:27:02PM -0700, Rob Enns wrote:
 
> rpe> The original plan was to exchange
> rpe> capabilities simultaneously and have both the manager and
> rpe> agent honor the resulting contract--including possibly modifying
> rpe> their behavior to match the capabilities advertised by their peer.
> rpe> However I believe we've dropped this concept because none of the
> rpe> capabilties in the spec today would need to be sent by the
> rpe> manager (the substrate has to indicate which peer acts in
> rpe> the manager or agent role). So we can dispense with manager
> rpe> capabilities. Any comments on this?

Announcing manager capabilities does not hurt so I prefer to keep
this feature even if it is not used in netconf 1.0.

/js

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