Re: [netmod] [Lsr] I-D Action: draft-ietf-lsr-ospfv3-extended-lsa-yang-10.txt

[Jürgen Schönwälder <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 10:44:33AM +0200, Martin Björklund wrote:
> Jürgen Schönwälder <[e-mail]> wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 04:52:41PM +0200, Martin Björklund wrote:
> > > Jürgen Schönwälder <[e-mail]> wrote:
> > > 
> > > [...]
> > > 
> > > > For me, the only sensible option (other than accepting that types are
> > > > named the way they are) is to introduce ip-address-with-zone and to
> > > > deprecate ip-address and stop there. Yes, this means coexistance of
> > > > inet:ip-address and ip-address-with-zone until YANG is getting
> > > > replaced.
> > > 
> > > But then what would you do with inet:host?
> > >
> > 
> > I would define ip-address-with-zone to be the same as ip-address
> > (i.e., with an optional zone index) and then I would then use
> > ip-address-with-zone instead of ip-address in inet:host (like we are
> > all going to replace the deprecated ip-address with either
> > ip-address-with-zone or ip-address-no-zone in all modules in the
> > future to avoid depending on a deprecated definition).
> 
> But if people believe that we have a big problem that ip-address may
> contain a zone index, don't we have the same problem w/ inet:host?
> Don't we have to deprecate also inet:host for the same reason?

The problem is with the name of the ip-address type. I assume people
might even be happy that a (host, port-number) tupe behaves as many
applications around us do.
 
> (To be clear: Personally, I do not think that deprecating these
> typedefs is the best solution)
>  
> > It does not make sense to me to have a type mandating a zone since on
> > all systems I know of the zone index shows up only when needed (and
> > creating yet another union seems overkill).
> 
> Did anyone suggest this?  I thought ip-address-with-zone was supposed to be
> exactly what ip-address is today.

This is how I understood Kent.

/js

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