I was reading RFC6241 about netconf, where it's said about RPC as a messaging mechanism of the protocol. However, the spec defines XML for transmitting RPC messages, so I don't quite understand why this is still called RPC? I used to think of RPC as described in ONC RPC, i.e. there should be a stub function defined (as done by rpcgen on Unix) and so on, but what NETCONF says does not strictly follow this paradigm, rather it defines a mechanism to transmit parameters over wire.
Perhaps, I misunderstand RPC as a concept. Could anybody clarify RPC in netconf for me? Thanks,