New Internet Draft on Peer-Mount

Hi,

we have just submitted a new Internet Draft regarding Peer-Mount, a 
mechanism that allows to reference and incorporate information from 
remote datastores.  This will allow, for example, a network controller 
to provide a federated datastore containing management data transcending 
individual network devices without needing to keep this data 
redundantly.  You can find the draft here: 
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-clemm-netmod-peermount-00

The concept of Peer-Mount was in fact originally introduced several 
years ago but not pursued further due to lack of interest and IETF use 
cases at the time.   It is being revived now, with a few modifications, 
in light of IETF interest in network inventory, network topology, and 
related use cases that have emerged since. Inevitably, these use cases 
may lead to the need to incorporate some management data regarding 
particular state or configuration that is already maintained on 
networking devices into a holistic network-wide view.  Unlike Schema 
Mount, which allows to reuse existing model definitions by allowing them 
to be  instantiated in a local data tree, Peer Mount is aimed at 
incorporating a  local view of data subtrees that are remote, 
authoritatively owned and maintained by separate systems.

We believe that this work belongs into Netmod, while the potential users 
are in network inventory - hence we are cross-posting this to netmod, 
ivy, and ccamp.

--- Alex (on behalf of coauthors)

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