Re: [netmod] Meeting Notes from open YANG versioning Design Team meeting

Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> Fri, 29 March 2019 18:31 UTC

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Subject: Re: [netmod] Meeting Notes from open YANG versioning Design Team meeting
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On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 10:50:52AM -0700, Mahesh Jethanandani wrote:
> 
> The combination of these bullet items, and maybe other bullet items does not make clear if there was any consensus in allowing (or maybe even preventing) vendors from using a versioning system to keep track of NBC changes on other (non-latest) branches of the model. I think I heard from multiple vendors (outside of this meeting) that making NBC changes was needed on the non-latest branches, whatever IETF or other SDOs decide. Has that sentiment changed?
> 
> If it is the case, the split between the requirements of SDO and the vendors is inevitable.
>

If there is a solution that can handle multiple branches, then the
same solution should work for SDOs that choose to use only a single
branch. I do not see why a split is inevitable.

/js

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