Re: [netmod] YANG identities and identityref's

Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> Thu, 03 May 2018 21:04 UTC

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Date: Thu, 03 May 2018 23:04:38 +0200
From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de>
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Subject: Re: [netmod] YANG identities and identityref's
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On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 08:30:59PM +0000, Acee Lindem (acee) wrote:
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> No - there are multiple devices in the network and they could have different level of support. For example, OSPF will accept OSPF Link State Advertisement (LSA) TLV types that it doesn't yet understand. The OSPF Link State Database can be retrieved via a YANG model. This seems like a pretty basic use case to me. 

If multiple different TLVs that are unknown to the server but that
exist in the link state database all map to a single unknown identity,
then you loose potentially important information. Perhaps you have no
other choice than modeling TLVs using tag numbers instead of
identities.

/js

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