Re: [netmod] Differentiating the types of Mount

[Juergen Schoenwaelder <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 03:59:50AM +0000, Eric Voit (evoit) wrote:
> To help differentiate between concepts and drafts, below are strawman definitions for the various types of Mount which we have been discussing over the last year in Netmod.   Thoughts/suggestions?
> 
> YANG Mount
> ----------------  
> Definition: An abstracted term for a mechanism that a parent YANG model can use to link in YANG information defined or located elsewhere.  
> Purpose: Provides model flexibility by enabling the growth of YANG trees via an explicit reference to other YANG information and structures.

Trying to rewrite the definition to be more consistent with existing
terminology:

  The abstract concept of incorporating a YANG-defined data tree (the
  mounted data tree) into a existing YANG-defined data tree (the
  parent data tree).

Well, this is not really correct, perhaps we have to just say 'tree'
instead of 'data tree' since a schema mount (as I understand it) seems
to incorporate a schema tree into another schema tree while the other
two mounts incorporate a data tree into a data tree. So perhaps the
general definition is something like this:

  The abstract concept of incorporating a YANG-defined data tree or
  schema tree (the mounted data or schema tree) into a existing
  YANG-defined data tree or schema tree (the parent data tree).

The schema mount then essentially removes data tree and the other two
mounts remove the schema tree from this definition.

Is your alias mount simply a special case of a peer mount where the
peer is local? Or is there more to it? In other words, would it be
reasonable to think of the terms in this way:

         +-> schema (tree) mount
	 |
mount -> |                        +-> local data tree (alias) mount
         +-> data (tree) mount -> |
                                  +-> remote data tree (peer) mount

/js

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