Ebben Aries

> Hi Ebben, thanks for the change. I don't think we ever added a version here simply because it seemed quite circular in terms of reference, but I don't think...

Can we first follow contributor guidelines and reference other implementation support along with proper explanation and justification?

From the understanding of often vast implementation differences - +1 for this design pattern in general. This provides controlled anchor points vs. either random inconsistent augments or resorting to native...

> Today managing certificate-id, mutual-authentication is done out of band/outside of openconfig. > > With the introduction of gNSI [certz](https://github.com/openconfig/gnsi/tree/main/certz) and [authz](https://github.com/openconfig/gnsi/tree/main/authz) and [bootz](https://github.com/openconfig/bootz), this moves to explicitly defined interfaces....

> > In addition, it would be useful to know if there is any precedent such as existing NOS implementations (perhaps not using gNMI) that support a capability like this?...

Looks like the CI/CD pipeline here is quite heavy resulting in: `/usr/bin/ranlib: libopenrlib.a: No space left on device`

Apologies I must have missed the activity on this PR but want to loop back on the topic. While the PR contents are somewhat stale, it's still probably the best...

> I think there are some big operators that have plans to use `heartbeat_interval` as they see a separate subscription with SAMPLE/ONCE too cumbersome to maintain. Well I'd still currently...

@robshakir @dplore - does the last comment make sense? is there anything pending for merge here?

Confirmed as well on 6.4.0-rc3 - running with debug symbols, backtrace below after freeze (observed freezing varies approx 30s - 2m after spawn) ``` (gdb) attach 13071 Attaching to process...