Re: [netmod] yang-data-ext issues

Ladislav Lhotka <lhotka@nic.cz> Tue, 24 April 2018 15:23 UTC

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From: Ladislav Lhotka <lhotka@nic.cz>
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Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 17:23:03 +0200
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Subject: Re: [netmod] yang-data-ext issues
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On Tue, 2018-04-24 at 16:36 +0200, Martin Bjorklund wrote:
> Ladislav Lhotka <lhotka@nic.cz> wrote:
> > Martin Bjorklund <mbj@tail-f.com> writes:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am not sure what this statement tells us re. the issue in this email
> > > thread.
> > 
> > It tells us that, in my view, the approach taken in this document is a
> > bad idea.
> 
> Do you mean that the WG shoud drop this document?  And people that

Yes. Doing it properly would amount to rewriting many parts of RFC 7950 for use
inside "yang-data".

> need yang-data should continue to use the version in 8040?  Or that

Preferably not.

> people that need yang-data do not have a valid use case and they
> should do something else?

They may have a valid use case but YANG (in the current form) is not suitable
for it.

Lada


> 
> 
> /martin
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > Lada
> > 
> > >
> > >
> > > /martin
> > >
> > >
> > > Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> wrote:
> > >> On Sun, Apr 22, 2018 at 02:56:51PM +0200, Ladislav Lhotka wrote:
> > >> 
> > >> > I am much more concerned with some of the post-1.1 features, also
> > >> > because YANG is now being updated in several directions without a
> > >> > clear vision. And another big problem is that YANG extensions are
> > >> > used for these changes, so we will probably end up with several
> > >> > different versions of YANG, although formally everything will be
> > >> > 1.1.
> > >> 
> > >> I tend to agree. Ideally, we would carefully remove things from YANG
> > >> that did not meet the cost/benefit target (e.g., submodules),
> > >> reorganize definitions whenever possible (some NETCONF specific stuff
> > >> in the YANG specification should not be there, XML encoding may be
> > >> factored out) and incorporate new features (like yang-data) after we
> > >> have sufficient _experience_ to know that such new features will be
> > >> useful (which seems to be the case for yang-data).
> > >> 
> > >> Yes, such iterations likely take 2 years at IETF speed but this kind
> > >> of maintenance cost/effort is likely the price to be paied for
> > >> something that is being used at a larger scale.
> > >> 
> > >> Some people will say that the cost of a new language version is high.
> > >> (Well, when we did 1.1, some people said it will never be deployed.)
> > >> Anyway, not bumping the YANG version number but having instead several
> > >> (optional) language extensions is just hiding the version number
> > >> change under the carpet.
> > >> 
> > >> /js
> > >> 
> > >> -- 
> > >> Juergen Schoenwaelder           Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH
> > >> Phone: +49 421 200 3587         Campus Ring 1 | 28759 Bremen | Germany
> > >> Fax:   +49 421 200 3103         <https://www.jacobs-university.de/>
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> > Ladislav Lhotka
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Ladislav Lhotka
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