Standard Configuration Datastores

• <candidate>

• • A scratchpad configuration used to collect edits to be applied all at once with a <commit> operation
  • Support for this configuration is optional

• <running>

• • The current operational configuration
  • All devices must support this configuration

• <startup>

• • The configuration to be used upon the next reload
  • Only devices that require the <running> configuration to be manually copied to non-volatile storage support this configuration