[netmod] Inventory YANG model (entity-MIB)

[Benoit Claise <[e-mail]>]

Dear all,

The I2RS interim meeting yesterday focused on topology.
Let me cut/paste a high level slide, with pointers to the relevant drafts.


If interested, the meeting minutes are at 
http://etherpad.tools.ietf.org:9000/p/i2rs-interim-march-5-2015-v-bluesheets

Part of the inventory draft 
(http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-dong-i2rs-network-inventory/) 
discussion, the overlap with the ENTITY-MIB RFC 6933 was discussed (and 
RFC 7223 btw).


The message was that I2RS should not re-invent something similar to the 
ENTITY-MIB
So, are you aware of any initiatives to "YANGify" the ENTITY-MIB?
It's true that there is a way to translate MIB into YANG with RFC 6643. 
This could be a good start. However, I wonder if a hand-written YANG 
model that closely follows the entPhysical would not be more beneficial.
Is this something we should take on board in NETMOD?

What do you think?

Note: As commented by the I2RS people, indexing is appropriate in the 
MIB module for its original purpose, but may not be for the topology. 
I'm not sure we want to change the indexing just for the topology, but 
the integration within the topology draft should be thought of.

Regards, Benoit