RE: FW: [NGO] Netconf-Proxy

["David B Harrington" <dbharrington@comcast.net>]

Hi Phil,

Unfortunately, the word "proxy" can be sensitive. ;-)
The Netconf protocol does not have a proxy mechanism. 

I am interested in your use case. Can you describe your use case in
more detail? 
Is your use case a request from operators/customers?

Is this related to NAT, where you have only one public IP address but
multiple devices you want to configure in the private address space
behind the NAT device?

When I worked at Enterasys, customers requested the ability to perform
CLI-based configuration in a distributed hierarchical manner, going
through intermediate routers and switches to reach devices. To a
degree this can be done using a policy-based distributed management
approach, where you "configure" an intermediate node to hold the
configuration information for other nodes. There have been a number of
IETF efforts focused on standardizing this type of policy-based
management, none of which has seemed to achieve success in the field.

Is you use case related to policy-based management?

Hope this helps,
David Harrington
dbharrington@comcast.net
ietfdbh@comcast.net





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