Technical Summary
This document defines a capability-based extension to the Network
Configuration Protocol (NETCONF) that allows time-triggered
configuration and management operations. This extension allows
NETCONF clients to invoke configuration updates according to
scheduled times, and allows NETCONF servers to attach timestamps to
the data they send to NETCONF clients.
Working Group Summary
The document was proposed for consideration as a netconf working-group
item. Ultimately it was not adopted as such. With the blessing of the the ADs
it was forwarded to the ISE, however, the requirements for allocation for the
netconf registry required standards action. The decision was made to AD
sponsor the draft recognizing that a number of participants in the discussion
felt that the proposed capabilities had merit even the to proposal itself
wasn't ready for the standards track. This required a standards action, 4 week
last call and a number of solicited reviews in order to insure that we were not
wildly off base.
Document Quality
There were some significant variance of opinion on which 6142 operations
are valid for timing. One vantage point is that potentially you only care about
timing get operations. Another more common view is that with the exception
of a few which make no sense timing is applicable to most of the operations.
The proposed set hews to the later vantage point. It is possible that
experimentation will refine the use cases more succinctly.
Personnel
Joel Jaeggli is the sponsoring AD and Shepherd.