Re: [netmod] WG Last Call: draft-ietf-netmod-acl-model-14

[Kristian Larsson <[e-mail]>]

On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 03:20:34PM +0630, Mahesh Jethanandani wrote:
> Kristian,
> 
> I hear you. What I am providing is the rational for the current design. 

Ok, thank you! That is valuable to me so please don't stop :)


> I would like to hear from others in the WG. We have been
> reviewing this draft for the last couple of years, and we are
> now at the tail end of the LC.

Believe me, I have no intention of stopping this draft. I just
want to improve it.

I actually wanted to start using it earlier this year but found
the structure so unwieldy to work with that I eventually gave up
and instead decided to try and improve the model. It took a wee
bit longer than I intended but here I am.

For the interested, I wanted to build a YANG translation service
in NCS (now Cisco NSO) that could translate ACLs from one format
into the native format of four different vendors. I currently
keep feature parity across four different platforms and doing
that for something like ACLs is highly error prone.


> I would really like to see this draft move forward,
> particularly since it is not broken.

I want to have a standard ACL model too.

I am not complaining just for the sake of complaining, it is
because I found the structure unnatural or otherwise difficult to
use. I will try my best to not just criticise but instead provide
actual suggestions on how to improve things.

Kind regards,
   Kristian.

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