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Ladislav Lhotka <lhotka@cesnet.cz> Wed, 16 January 2008 13:54 UTC

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Balazs Lengyel píše v St 16. 01. 2008 v 14:38 +0100:
> So we have two combinations
> 1) old manager new node (my case)
> 2) new manager old node

Right, compatibility means a different thing in each case.
 
> 
> Both are interesting questions.
> YANG's primary aim is to define what model the node provides, so I think we should define here 
> what is a compatible change in the node's model.

Yup, as Martin pointed out, one can assume the manager is more flexible
and should be able to handle gracefully weird data received from the
node, provided it knows the node uses a new data model that the manager
doesn't support.

Lada


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