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Re: [NGO] external module properties

Wes Hardaker <wjhns1@hardakers.net> Tue, 29 April 2008 18:48 UTC

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>>>>> On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:42:48 -0700, Andy Bierman <ietf@andybierman.com> said:

AB> YANG solves it by not allowing the vendor to have
AB> any sort of version string within the language.
AB> You get one release per day per module. Period.

That smells of a CLR.  An arbitrary timing requirement immediately
limits what you can do with it.

From a security point of view I don't like it either.  Security issues
can be created in data models and releasing a new copy with a fix *now*
is an important feature.

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Wes Hardaker
Sparta, Inc.
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