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Re: [Asdf] Kicking off ASDF

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Tue, 04 August 2020 20:39 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Asdf] Kicking off ASDF
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Hi Jim,

On 2020-08-04, at 22:08, Jim Schaad <ietf@augustcellars.com> wrote:
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> How much leeway is there for modifications of the first round of the SDF document?  It seems possible that changes could "break" the current collections of model descriptions.  If this is not within the of possibility it needs to be so stated.

As I said in the BOF, most of these models are generated from ecosystem sources by tools, so if there is a breaking change that doesn’t reduce the domain, it should be possible to get the tools to adjust.  Of course other materials such as tutorials decay with these changes, and touching the tools is work, so there should be a reason for the change.  But overall I think this specification is malleable to an extent rarely seen.

In the end, layering backpack on backpack will make the tools hard to maintain and brittle, so we really care about getting the simplifications and refactorings possible with each change.

Grüße, Carsten

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