Re: partial locking

[Andy Bierman <ietf@andybierman.com>]

Balazs Lengyel wrote:
> Hello Andy,
> I have a problem with the terminology used in this mail-thread.
>
> People are speaking about SNMP database, Netconf database etc. IMHO we 
> should speak about the device's management database as the only 
> database. Different protocols, interfaces might provide a complete or 
> partial view to this database, but the data is not owned by this or that 
> protocol as I understand.

This may be true in the abstract sense, but for standards purposes,
I am interested in how the NETCONF protocol operations work with
the XML encoded data in the <config> element.  This data is entirely up
the agent implementor.  It may or may not represent the entire device.
What if the agent is for a virtual router, not the entire physical router?

I completely agree with you that there is one seamless XML-encoded
configuration database on the agent, which can be manipulated in
a consistent manner with standard protocol operations.  In other words,
if an implementor puts data within the <config>, then it must support the
standard operations such as <get> and <edit-config> (if writable) on that data.
This is a much different requirement than saying all configuration
data on the device must be accessible via NETCONF.

> Balazs

Andy

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