Re: [NGO] external module properties

Phil Shafer <phil@juniper.net> Tue, 29 April 2008 16:22 UTC

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To: Andy Bierman <ietf@andybierman.com>
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From: Phil Shafer <phil@juniper.net>
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Andy Bierman writes:
>But if module FOO in any NETCONF system imports module X,
>and module BAR imports module X, can we say in the YANG spec
>that they MUST refer to the same exact module X?

You can only say that if you can say that there is only
exactly one module X.  If everyone makes their own "vlan"
module, you're out of luck.

Thanks,
 Phil
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