Subject: [Netconf] subtree filtering (was Re: Fwd: I-D Action: draft-bierman-netconf-get2-00.txt)

From: Andy Bierman <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 08:57:21 -0700

> 1.1.6.  Subtree Filtering is Mandatory
>
>   I guess this goes back to the discussion about NC/Lite.
>

IMO there are a few legitimate reasons for not supporting
subtree filtering (SHOULD instead of MUST is what get2 says):

  1) device does not have many data nodes to return
  2) device uses time-filtering to support polling updates
  3) NETCONF supports offline editing (get-config + copy-config)
      and filtering is not used in this editing mode

> /martin

Andy