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Re: access control on the <eventStreams> data model



Hi -

> From: "Andy Bierman" <ietf@andybierman.com>
> To: "Netconf (E-mail)" <netconf@ops.ietf.org>
> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 1:09 PM
> Subject: access control on the <eventStreams> data model
...
> It is not even clear that access control "by stream" even
> makes any sense.  Access control by namespace and element name
> within the data stream makes sense.  What if the same data
> can appear in multiple streams?  It is also more robust
> to simply exclude restricted data from the particular subscription,
> rather than reject the entire subscription, because the manager
> has access to most (but not all) of the possible data that
> could be generated in a stream.  This is how access control
> works in SNMP.  If you to a getnext or getbulk, it skips restricted data,
> rather than rejecting the PDU with an error.
....

But, FWIW, that's not how access control for notifications works in SNMP.
RFC 3413 3.3 (2)

Randy


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