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Re: [yang-doctors] YANG dialects?

Schönwälder, Jürgen <J.Schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> Thu, 19 December 2019 17:02 UTC

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From: "Schönwälder, Jürgen" <J.Schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de>
To: Ladislav Lhotka <lhotka@nic.cz>
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On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 05:44:56PM +0100, Ladislav Lhotka wrote:
> > 
> > I think the solution is trivial, and it has been proposed to
> > OpenConfig - introduce a new extension statement oc:posix-pattern.
> > This will make the modules *legal*, and tools can use existing
> > mechanisms to deal (or not) with this new statement.
> 
> I don't think it is legal, because
> 
> o  extension: An extension attaches non-YANG semantics to statements.
> 
> This is not the case here, it is only syntactically compatible. If tool A says
> that some instance data is valid, but tool B says it isn't, then the standard is
> gone.

Right now, things are even worse. If they were defining an extension
and they would update their modules and tools to use it and they would
fix the pattern in the pattern statements to comply to RFCs, things
would be much better. But somehow I doubt any of this will happen
since they could have done all this already years ago.

/js
 
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