> On 12 Jan 2016, at 16:38, Benoit Claise <bcla...@cisco.com> wrote:
> 
> Lada,
>>> On 08 Jan 2016, at 16:20, Robert Wilton <rwil...@cisco.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Lada,
>>> 
>>> On 08/01/2016 12:30, Ladislav Lhotka wrote:
>>>> Robert Wilton <rwil...@cisco.com> writes:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi Lada,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I think that requirement 1D is fairly key to what is being asked for
>>>>> here to allow both the user and system to easily relate between what the
>>>>> operator desires and what configuration the system is actually using,
>>>> In a way, system-controlled interfaces are default entries in the
>>>> interface list - and the system can certainly be using interfaces with
>>>> no configuration installed by NETCONF/RESTCONF clients.
>>>> 
>>>>> so I wouldn't be particularly keen on loosening this requirement.
>>>> OK, but then IMO this intended-applied dualism is of limited
>>>> utility. For many systems or services, asynchronicity is not an option,
>>>> or isn't important.
>>> I don't really agree.   I think that this is plausibly important to anyone 
>>> who wants to manage network devices in an automated way.
>> I am currently working with my colleagues on two use cases:
>> 
>> 1. RESTCONF interface to a DNS server that will cover the daemon 
>> configuration, policies for zone signing, and zone provisioning.
>> 
>> 2. RESTCONF interface to an OpenWRT-based router.
>> 
>> For neither of them applied configuration seems to add any value.
>> 
> Fair enough. However, it doesn't entail that the opstate has no value for 
> anybody.
> Some operators have spoken loud and clear.

Sure, what I wrote was: For many systems or services, asynchronicity is not an 
option, or isn't important.

Lada

> 
> Regards, Benoit
> 

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