Re: [netmod] Module tags

[Christian Hopps <[e-mail]>]

Robert Wilton <[e-mail]> writes:

> On 14/02/2017 16:30, Christian Hopps wrote:
>> Robert Wilton <[e-mail]> writes:
>>> A roughly equivalent example might be perhaps like CDDB, where a program
>>> can take a CD track, and go and fetch the associated metadata from some
>>> known location without the metadata being embedded in the CD track itself.
>> Sure, but that is setup that way b/c the CD data is seen as read only
>> right? I don't think this is even the normal way to tag things. There
>> are tons of examples of the opposite where the item itself is tagged
>> (XML attributes, social media's #hashtags, cow ears, ...).
> It will be easier to change the tag on a cow ear than on a standardized
> YANG module, but I like your example ;-)
>
> It is outside my area of expertise, but I expect that most of the
> meta-data associated with a cow is not attached to the cow itself, but
> stored in some database somewhere.  The cow ear tag is more so that you
> can identify the right cow in the database.

On some other threads I've given the example of a tag that indicates an
"interface" (like java has interfaces), is present. In that case the
actual metadata (the interface definition) is present elsewhere and the
tag is just like a cow ear tag, i.e., a reference. This is the case with
most tag uses I think, the only difference may be the amount of
information that is represented by the tag.

Thanks,
Chris.