Re: [pim] Suresh Krishnan's No Objection on draft-ietf-pim-igmp-mld-yang-13: (with COMMENT)

[Xufeng Liu <[e-mail]>]

Hi Suresh,

Thanks for the review and comments. Some of the version check could be done
in YANG, while the concern was the complexity added to the model, with a
cost to the usability. The authors will examine these cases and address
them using either approach as suggested. Maybe some of them use YANG and
others use explanation descriptions. In the case of the explanation
description, the system can do the validation at the backend and provide
feedback.

Thanks,
- Xufeng

On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 6:04 PM Suresh Krishnan via Datatracker <
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> I do have a general concern with the document in relation to its handling
> of
> multiple protocol versions. There are features in the yang models that
> should
> be conditional but they do not seem to be. Here are some examples.
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> * The source specific features are to be used with IGMPv3 and MLDv2 and
> will
> not work with the earlier versions * The router alert check is not
> optional for
> MLD or IGMPv3, but is required to be disabled for compatibility with
> earlier
> versions of IGMP. I would also make this feature conditional on the IGMP
> version. If not you need to rethink the defaults for this.
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> I would like to understand the authors' views on how they plan to address
> the
> potential consistency issues due to these features being unbound in the
> model.
> I would be fine if it is either addressed with yang constructs or with some
> explanatory text to this point.
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