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Re: [netmod] An abundant amount of IANA if types...

Alex Campbell <Alex.Campbell@Aviatnet.com> Thu, 05 April 2018 23:59 UTC

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From: Alex Campbell <Alex.Campbell@Aviatnet.com>
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I haven't seen any previous discussions on the topic, but we have a similar problem.

Note this is not really to do with YANG itself, so much as the practical limitations of the software package that provides our CLI interface.

In NETCONF, the existence of extra unused identities doesn't pose any problem.


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From: netmod <netmod-bounces@ietf.org> on behalf of Bogaert, Bart (Nokia - BE/Antwerp) <bart.bogaert@nokia.com>
Sent: Thursday, 5 April 2018 8:21 p.m.
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Subject: [netmod] An abundant amount of IANA if types...

Hi,

We were wondering if it would make sense to introduce features in the IANA if types YANG model to enable grouping of related interface types.  This would allow implementations to include only the types it really requires (by supporting the related features but not the others) and (in case of a CLI interface) would reduce the possible completions if an operator would ask for the possible values of the type of an interface.
Has this ever been considered/discussed?

Best regards,
Bart

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