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Re: [netmod] Request to review the YANG compiler annotations draft.

Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> Mon, 04 July 2016 09:27 UTC

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Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2016 11:27:38 +0200
From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de>
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Subject: Re: [netmod] Request to review the YANG compiler annotations draft.
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On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 02:49:26PM +0530, Vinod Kumar wrote:
> 
> *Need for Standard*
> We wanted to address this gap, in a standardized way, so that it is NOT
> compiler / tools specific. This enables applications to be portable across
> platforms, for example, applications can be portable across controllers
> (like ONOS / ODL) without any additional effort with respect to data
> organization.
>

Data organization is highly implementation specific and even more so
if you accept that not all implementations are written in Java. And as
Andy said, the IETF has a tradition to not standardize APIs.

/js

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