Re: [netmod] Inventory YANG model (entity-MIB)

[Juergen Schoenwaelder <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 09:43:21AM +0000, Dongjie (Jimmy) wrote:
 
> As described in the -00 version of draft-dong-inventory, the "generic features and capabilities" means the networking functions and services that the network nodes and components can provide, e.g. IP unicast, multicast, ethernet bridging, mpls, traffic-engineering, etc. The set of the functions will be completed in future revision. Our intention is to abstract those control plane independent functions in this model, and let the protocol specific models to cover the details of each protocol.

I think this is not how we organize work in the IETF. If a device
supports ethernet briding (for example), it will announce an ethernet
bridging data model that is extending the generic interface data model
with ethernet bridging specific configuration and state objects. This
has already been done for IP and it follows the way the IETF
previously organized MIB modules. This is also largely how routing
data models that are currently written are organized (a core routing
data model plus routing protocol specific extensions).

I do not think that what you are describing fits into the scope of an
inventory data model given the way the IETF used partion work so far.

/js

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