Re: [netmod] I-D Action: draft-ietf-netmod-schema-mount-07.txt

[Martin Bjorklund <[e-mail]>]

Lou Berger <[e-mail]> wrote:
> Hi Martin,
> 
> See below
> 
> On 9/27/2017 6:55 AM, Martin Bjorklund wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This version fixes the XPath context for parent-reference.
> >
> >
> > However, there is one more thing to discuss, which is the term "mount
> > point".  
> >
> > The current text says:
> >
> >    - mount point: container or list node whose definition contains
> >      the "mount-point" extension statement. The argument of the
> >      "mount-point" statement defines the name of the mount point.
> >
> >
> > So if we have:
> >     
> >   container top {
> >     container root {
> >       yangmnt:mount-point ni;
> >     }
> >   }
> >     
> > There is one mount point, the node /top/root, with the name "ni".
> in the NI draft [1] we solve this by keeping the names the same:
> 
>         container vrf-root {
>           description
>             "Container for mount point.";
>           yangmnt:mount-point "vrf-root" {
>             description
>               "Root for L3VPN type models. This will typically
>                not be an inline type mount point.";
>           }
>         }
> 
> [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-rtgwg-ni-model-04
> > Pretty confusing...   Does anyone have any comments around this?
> >
> When the NE authors discussed this, we (a) discussed it's not a
> significant impediment or issue worth discussing, and (b) one author
> noted that the flexibility may even be useful down the road.

Yes, I don't want to change any functionality, but perhaps change the
terminology to make it less confusion.

Maybe change the extension to:

  extension mount-point {
    argument id; // instead of 'name'
    ...
  }

So the container "vrf-root" would be a mount point, with id "ni".



/martin




> 
> Thanks,
> Lou
> (As contributor)
>  
> >
> > /martin
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > [e-mail] wrote:
> >> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
> >> This draft is a work item of the Network Modeling WG of the IETF.
> >>
> >>         Title           : YANG Schema Mount
> >>         Authors         : Martin Bjorklund
> >>                           Ladislav Lhotka
> >> 	Filename        : draft-ietf-netmod-schema-mount-07.txt
> >> 	Pages           : 27
> >> 	Date            : 2017-09-27
> >>
> >> Abstract:
> >>    This document defines a mechanism to combine YANG modules into the
> >>    schema defined in other YANG modules.
> >>
> >>
> >> The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
> >> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-netmod-schema-mount/
> >>
> >> There are also htmlized versions available at:
> >> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-netmod-schema-mount-07
> >> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-netmod-schema-mount-07
> >>
> >> A diff from the previous version is available at:
> >> https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-netmod-schema-mount-07
> >>
> >>
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> >>
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