Re: [i2rs] Kathleen Moriarty's No Objection on draft-ietf-i2rs-yang-l3-topology-08: (with COMMENT)

[Juergen Schoenwaelder <[e-mail]>]

Sue,

the current thinking is documented in
draft-ietf-netmod-revised-datastores-00.txt.

/js

On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 12:52:47PM -0500, Susan Hares wrote:
> Juergen: 
>  
> "And with the revised datastore model it will also be straight forward to have an implementation that just exposes topological data via the operational state datastore.  And the revised datastore model also paves the path to support datastores that can also inject ephemeral data."
> 
> Where do you believe the revised data store model suggest ephemeral data can be injected - (?written)? 
> 
> Sue 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: i2rs [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Juergen Schoenwaelder
> Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 10:33 AM
> To: Giles Heron
> Cc: [e-mail]; [e-mail]; Lou Berger; [e-mail]; Alia Atlas
> Subject: Re: [i2rs] Kathleen Moriarty's No Objection on draft-ietf-i2rs-yang-l3-topology-08: (with COMMENT)
> 
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 03:19:58PM +0000, Giles Heron wrote:
> > 
> > > On 25 Jan 2017, at 15:18, Juergen Schoenwaelder <[e-mail]> wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 10:07:45AM -0500, Alia Atlas wrote:
> > >> 
> > >> So - if one has models - such as a writable topology - where there 
> > >> can be dependencies on dynamic data, then those models can't be in 
> > >> the configuration data-store as currently defined.
> > >> 
> > > 
> > > Yes
> > 
> > but isn’t this confusing models and implementation?
> 
> I just confirmed that the old datastore model does not support writable ephemeral datastores. No more no less. And there is work in NETMOD (and NETCONF) to revise the datastore model and to make data model reuse in different datastores even simpler.
>  
> > if you have a case where you have a dependency on dynamic data then you can’t put that instantiation of the model in the configuration data-store.
> > 
> > but if your implementation never depends on dynamic data then it ought to be fine.
> 
> Yes. This should be fine.
> 
> And with the revised datastore model it will also be straight forward to have an implementation that just exposes topological data via the operational state datastore.  And the revised datastore model also paves the path to support datastores that can also inject ephemeral data.
> 
> /js
> 
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