One important technique that could be supported by devices to facilitate management transactions involves locking the device—that is, allowing a single management session to take management...

One important technique that could be supported by devices to facilitate management transactions involves locking the device—that is, allowing a single management session to take management “ownership” of the device and allow no one else to modify the configuration during that time. Such a capability is very powerful, but in what ways does it still fall short of true management transaction support? For bonus points, can you think of new management issues that it introduces?