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RFC 8040 is NOT backwards compatible with Biermann. SDNC plans to announce that the Bierman internet draft support is deprecated in Kohn and to advise clients to move to RFC 8040. However, we anticipate that not all clients will be able to move to RFC 8040 in a timely manner. Therefore, we are planning to develop our own support for Bierman in London release. The details of our migration strategy are described in RESTCONF migration strategy
If they are modified, are they backwards compatible?
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