Re: [netmod] yang-data-ext issues

Ladislav Lhotka <lhotka@nic.cz> Tue, 24 April 2018 14:30 UTC

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Subject: Re: [netmod] yang-data-ext issues
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Martin Bjorklund <mbj@tail-f.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I am not sure what this statement tells us re. the issue in this email
> thread.

It tells us that, in my view, the approach taken in this document is a
bad idea.

Lada

>
>
> /martin
>
>
> Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 22, 2018 at 02:56:51PM +0200, Ladislav Lhotka wrote:
>> 
>> > I am much more concerned with some of the post-1.1 features, also
>> > because YANG is now being updated in several directions without a
>> > clear vision. And another big problem is that YANG extensions are
>> > used for these changes, so we will probably end up with several
>> > different versions of YANG, although formally everything will be
>> > 1.1.
>> 
>> I tend to agree. Ideally, we would carefully remove things from YANG
>> that did not meet the cost/benefit target (e.g., submodules),
>> reorganize definitions whenever possible (some NETCONF specific stuff
>> in the YANG specification should not be there, XML encoding may be
>> factored out) and incorporate new features (like yang-data) after we
>> have sufficient _experience_ to know that such new features will be
>> useful (which seems to be the case for yang-data).
>> 
>> Yes, such iterations likely take 2 years at IETF speed but this kind
>> of maintenance cost/effort is likely the price to be paied for
>> something that is being used at a larger scale.
>> 
>> Some people will say that the cost of a new language version is high.
>> (Well, when we did 1.1, some people said it will never be deployed.)
>> Anyway, not bumping the YANG version number but having instead several
>> (optional) language extensions is just hiding the version number
>> change under the carpet.
>> 
>> /js
>> 
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