Re: [YANG] new pyang errors

On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 01:05:00PM +0100, Bert Wijnen wrote:

> > We consider this conformance mechanism to belong to step to in 
> > the DML. AFAIK it is not really used in SNMP either.

[...]

> But other than during early SNMP interoperability tests in the mid-1990s
> I have never seen it used much (if at all). 
> So we should learn from this and think hard before we fall into the
> same trap of designing mechanisms that no-one uses.

Perhaps a clarification: We are not saying conformance mechanisms are
not useful. We just like to postpone them to the second phase of YANG
since conformance mechanisms are not needed to get started and we like
to keep the YANG effort reasonably scoped so that we have a chance to
complete what we started in reasonable amounts of time.

/js

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