Re: [NGO] external module properties

Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> Tue, 29 April 2008 22:51 UTC

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From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de>
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On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 06:33:05PM -0400, Phil Shafer wrote:
> Juergen Schoenwaelder writes:
> >I think it is not desirable to assume a 1:1 mapping of each and every
> >"(sub)agent capability" to a YANG module. I can't imagine this to work
> >in a standards setting; you would have to isolate each and every
> >little feature into a separate YANG module.
> 
> At this point, that's all the granularity we have.  We have talked
> about adding a capabiltity definition and testing mechanism to YANG,
> but it never took off.

I suggest to get data models done first, then worry about the next
things on the road. Describing granular implementation feature sets is
for me a very different problem - and without common data models
written in a common data modeling language, it is not worth to spent
time to solve this problem.

/js

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