Re: [YANG] default values

Balazs Lengyel píše v Čt 17. 01. 2008 v 12:35 +0100:
> 
> Ladislav Lhotka wrote:
> > Assume there is a standard data model urn:ietf:X and a vendor that is
> > essentially happy with it, but in their device they want to change a
> > certain default value specified in the model. So they are forced to use
> > another model, say, urn:vendor:Y. A NETCONF manager that uses urn:ietf:X
> > should in principle be able to interoperate smoothly with the device but
> > refuses to establish a session because of unknown capability.
> > 
> > If the model did not specify the behaviour of the device, the vendor
> > could use it directly.
> > 
> > Lada
> This only means that the standard body for that particular protocol was not careful enough when 
> choosing the default value. Maybe it should have chosen a "SHOULD" type of default that is not 
> formally specified in the default statement just included in the description statement.
> 
> YANG gives you the possibility to enforce a default. It just gives you this as an option, that 
> you might or might not use.

Do you believe there is no politics involved in the standardisation
process? I don't.

Lada

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