Re: [core] YANG Packages for CoMI

HI Andy,

Is the proposal to make YANG packages compulsory over yang-library in 
Comi servers and clients?

Peter

Andy Bierman schreef op 2015-07-26 19:44:
> Hi,
> 
> Michel raised some issues with the YANG library draft
> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-netconf-yang-library/
> 
> Maybe CoMI needs its own optimized module library.
> I am concerned that data sizes of the YANG library will be
> too big in some really constrained environments.
> 
> I wrote a draft that defines a way to specify the contents of the
> YANG library in a single static document, called a YANG package.
> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-bierman-netmod-yang-package/
> 
> If there was a "shorthand" resource that listed YANG packages, instead
> of YANG modules, then the CoMI client that supported YANG packages
> could read that instead of the module library.
> 
> The YANG package message response can identify a single package
> (e.g. match the firmware) so the size of the response will remain very
> small, and not depend on the entire list of modules, features,
> and deviations. The data savings could 1000X for 100 modules.
> 
> The client needs to retrieve the library first-time and anytime it
> changes.
> The module-set-id values are per-server, not global. This could be a
> significant bottleneck when a CoMI client starts or restarts, and
> manages lots of servers.
> 
> Andy
> 
> 
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