Darren Loher

Reviewed in May 6, 2025 OC operators meeting. It's suggested to instead proposal a deprecation of this field from the gnmi specification as it appears infeasible to implement at scale...

FWIW, we (google) are not using the `use_models` field in gNMI. Also, FWIW, the [reference gnmi server](https://github.com/google/gnxi/blob/c9e3a4334bfc3dbf023247b8fddc9d4a6636665a/gnmi/server.go#L662) also does not implement `use_models`.

@ElodinLaarz for some context around this issue, can you comment on how our collector handles `SAMPLE` mode streaming and why we are not dependent on an "end of sample" marker.

Reviewed at May 6, 2025 OC Operators meeting. Some feedbacks: Operational Goal is something like: “Important operational state changes should be sent as soon as possible, (using ON_CHANGE mode). But...

> @dplore > > > As far as deprecating existing gNMI specification, we should understand is what dependencies or use cases exist regarding suppress_redundant and heartbeat_interval. It would be good...

> If we deprecate suppress redundant, how do you plan to implement the 'dynamic value' paths like counters, temp, cpu, ram and similar sensors. If its just sampling, its not...

> > > @dplore > > > > As far as deprecating existing gNMI specification, we should understand is what dependencies or use cases exist regarding suppress_redundant and heartbeat_interval. It...

Reviewed in September 4th, 2025 OC Community meeting to increase visibility of this PR. One comment from a few participants is can we look to not duplicate file transfer RPC's?...

> > I am good with "TransceiverFirmwareManagement". We've already changed the name a couple times, so I'll give this a few days unless anyone has objections to this new overall...

> > > > > I am good with "TransceiverFirmwareManagement". We've already changed the name a couple times, so I'll give this a few days unless anyone has objections to...