Re: [Netconf] Draft Charter Proposal for NETCONF WG

[Alexander Clemm <[e-mail]>]

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> An operator doesn't want external systems to individually address 
> every control plane VM.  Rather they want a YANG model for this
> logical+physical combination.  In this case each VM might use Peer
> (data) Mount to build a multi-device abstraction.  BTW: doing it this 
> way also allows the same mounted YANG object data to be addressably 
> exposed for each VM without requiring another YANG model to be made.

I think this can be mostly accomplished with the "inline" approach of schema mount (which in fact is a data mount and probably very similar to the concept of peer mount).

<ALEX> While schema mount was triggered by and in some way originated from earlier discussions surrounding peer mount, they are not the same.  They accomplish something different.  With schema mount, you can reuse / incorporate earlier definitions.  It is about extending definitions and being able to reuse models defined earlier, but how to implement and populate the data is up to the implementation.  With peer-mount, the population of the data is very much part of the concept and can be inherently provided by the framework (as the mount target and authoritative source of the data will be managed as part of the mountpoint).  
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