Re: [netmod] New Version Notification for draft-verdt-netmod-yang-versioning-reqs-01.txt

[Martin Bjorklund <[e-mail]>]

Juergen Schoenwaelder <[e-mail]> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 02:37:29PM +0100, Martin Bjorklund wrote:
> > 
> > > I think we need to distinguish between the agreement on the
> > > requirement, namely that a server should be able to provide support
> > > for an old and a new definition, and agreement on the solution.
> > > 
> > > Do you disagree with the requirement? Or do you disagree with the
> > > consequences of implementing multiple versions of the same module
> > > for some of the proposed new versioning schemes? Or both?
> > 
> > I do not agree with the requirement that a server MUST be able to
> > support multiple revisions of the same module, which is how I
> > interpret 3.2.  If this is not the intention of 3.2, maybe it can be
> > clarified.
> >
> 
> Here is what 3.2 says:
> 
>        3.2  The solution MUST provide a mechanism to allow servers to
>             simultaneously support clients using different revisions of
>             modules.  A client's choice of particular revision of one or
>             more modules may restrict the particular revision of other
>             modules that may be used in the same request or session.
> 
> This does _not_ say servers MUST implement this.
> 
> Item 3.2 establishes a requirement and for some solutions it may be
> easy to satisfy this requirement, for others it may be more costly to
> satisfy this requirement.
> 
> The whole requirements exercise becomes a rather pointless exercise if
> we remove requirements so that certain solutions look more
> attractive.

Ok, but that's not what I wrote.  I don't agree with this requirement
which says that it MUST be possible for a server to support
different revisions of a given module (again, if this is not the
intention of the text, please clarify).  I simply don't think that
this is a good requirement.


/martin


> I have not seen a proposal that addresses all requirements and hence
> at the end the WG needs to decide which tradeoffs make sense.
> 
> /js
> 
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