Last Call Review of draft-ietf-netmod-opstate-reqs-04
review-ietf-netmod-opstate-reqs-04-opsdir-lc-morton-2016-02-13-00

Hi Kent and Tom, and ops-dir,

It's time for your OPS-DIR review and I'm "it".
As Warren always says, "Be not afraid...".

I fully support the purpose of your draft. These are
important concepts to define unambiguously and 
some useful requirements to see implemented.
I'll make a few suggestions for clarification below,
and I trust you'll develop acceptable wording
where I haven't fully understood your intentions.

I'm not aware of any IPR associated with the points
I seek to clarify.

regards,
Al
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Section 2

   Asynchronous Configuration Operation:  A configuration request to
       update the running configuration of a server that is applied
       asynchronously with respect to the client request.

"running configuration" is used in this definition, and again in 
Synchronous Configuration Operation without being defined.
Is this a subset of the "Operational State" ?


Section 3  Requirements

"   1.  Ability to interact with both intended and applied configuration "

What entity is this requirement for?  Is it:
    1. The Client MUST possess the ability to interact with both...
or BOTH Client and Server?


Later in Section 3

"   3.  Separation of the applied configuration and derived state aspects
       of operational state; ability to retrieve them independently and
       together

       A.  Be able to retrieve only the applied configuration aspects of
           operational state

       B.  Be able to retrieve only the derived state aspects of
           operational state

       C.  Be able to retrieve both the applied configuration and
           derived state aspects of operational state together"

This seems to be a set of requirements for BOTH the Client and the Server,
worded from the Point-of-view of the Client ("retrieve").
Can you add the Client and Server here, using RFC 2119 terms?

suggest:
     The Client MUST:
       A.  Be able to retrieve only the applied configuration aspects of...
 

Later in Section 3

"   4.  Ability to relate configuration with its corresponding
       operational state
      A. ... "

These are Server requirements? One or both the entities gets MUST or SHOULD...
(These requirements (4) were not completely clear to me.)