[Teas] Key collision between configured and ephemeral list entries

[Italo Busi <[e-mail]>]

On Friday within the TEAS WG, we have discussed an issue which seems generic and therefore agreed to ask for guidelines to the Netmod WG

In the TE YANG model we have defined a tunnel list with a name attribute used as a key:

     |  +--rw tunnel* [name]
     |  |  +--ro operational-state?                  identityref
     |  |  +--rw name                                string

See: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-teas-yang-te-21

The issue we are facing is how to avoid name collision between configured and ephemeral tunnels. In other words, the issue we are trying to address is how to avoid the client to assign to a configured tunnel a name which have been already assigned by the server to another ephemeral tunnel and vice-versa, in particular considering NMDA rules

We believe that the issue is generic and apply to any configured and ephemeral list entries

Has this issue been already discussed/resolved in Netmod WG?

If not, what is the Netmod WG opinion/suggestion? We are currently considering the following option:

   Use a special character for ephemeral names - e.g. such names always are prepended by special character "#"
   Make the special character changeable by configuration - the default can be "#" and user can change if they desire..

Thanks, Italo

Italo Busi
Principal Optical Transport Network Research Engineer
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
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From: Tarek Saad [mailto:[e-mail]]
Sent: venerdì 24 maggio 2019 23:13
To: Igor Bryskin <[e-mail]>; Rakesh Gandhi <[e-mail]>; Xufeng <[e-mail]>; Vishnu Pavan Beeram <[e-mail]>; Italo Busi <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Discussion on modelling container TE tunnels in YANG

The team on "to" list met to discuss this subject topic. Notes from today's discussion (please add if I missed):

Name collision between configured and ephemeral tunnels:
  This is a generic problem in NMDA.
  How to handle collisions between configured and ephemeral (or auto-created) objects of a list, if the list uses the object (string based) name as the key?
  Both configured and ephemeral can have the same object name but they are different objects - how to avoid such collision.
 Proposed solution:
   Option 1:
   Use a special character for ephemeral names - e.g. such names always are prepended by special character "#"
   Make the special character changeable by configuration - the default can be "#" and user can change if they desire..
  Others?
AI (Italo): to send email to netmod group.

Container TE tunnels discussion:
-          Container tunnels are grouping of tunnels between same 2 endpoints to share incoming traffic towards the egress
-          Member tunnels of a container tunnel can be auto-created/deleted on-demand and controlled by thresholds specified under the container
-          Some attributes may apply on the container tunnel and inherited down to member tunnels of the container
-          Q: Should model allow member tunnel to override inherited attributes from container tunnel?
-          Q: Should all auto-created member tunnels of a container have the same prefix/suffix - i..e prefix/suffix can be configurable

Regards,
Tarek