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Last Call Review of draft-ietf-netconf-rfc6536bis-04
review-ietf-netconf-rfc6536bis-04-opsdir-lc-dunbar-2017-09-06-00

Request Review of draft-ietf-netconf-rfc6536bis
Requested revision No specific revision (document currently at 09)
Type IETF Last Call Review
Team Ops Directorate (opsdir)
Deadline 2017-09-15
Requested 2017-08-22
Requested by Mahesh Jethanandani
Authors Andy Bierman , Martin Björklund
I-D last updated 2021-04-08 (Latest revision 2017-12-11)
Completed reviews Yangdoctors IETF Last Call review of -04 by Radek Krejčí (diff)
Opsdir IETF Last Call review of -04 by Linda Dunbar (diff)
Genart Telechat review of -07 by Stewart Bryant (diff)
Comments
Although this is only a bis document, the original RFC does not seem have gotten a OPS-DIR review. The entire document should be reviewed from a OPS-DIR perspective.
Assignment Reviewer Linda Dunbar
State Completed
Request IETF Last Call review on draft-ietf-netconf-rfc6536bis by Ops Directorate Assigned
Reviewed revision 04 (document currently at 09)
Result Has issues
Completed 2017-09-06
review-ietf-netconf-rfc6536bis-04-opsdir-lc-dunbar-2017-09-06-00
I have reviewed this document as part of the Operational directorate's ongoing
effort to review all IETF documents being processed by the IESG.  These
comments were written primarily for the benefit of the operational area
directors.

Document editors and WG chairs should treat these comments just like any other
last call comments.

Document: draft-ietf-netconf-rfc6536bis-04

Reviewer: Linda Dunbar

Review result: Has issues.

Comments:

Page 6:

Section 2.1 Access Control Points (first sentence)

NETCONF is a protocol.  What does it mean by saying NETCONF allow other new
protocols operations? Can you provide some examples?

Do you mean the operations other than Create, Read, Update and Delete?

Page 13:

Here is the description of the <action> operation defined by RFC7950. I would
think that the client should have the “update” privilege (not just “read) to
trigger it, should it?

More general question:

The document is to specify the mechanism to restrict NETCONF for particular
users.

Intuitively, I would think that the restriction should be applied to specific
data store (or data model) on servers.

For example, for the data model specified by “draft-ietf-netmod-acl-model-11”,
can’t you set up the (CRUD) permission right for setting up <access-lists> by
specific user id?

Best Regards, Linda Dunbar