Re: [YANG] keyref

Andy Bierman writes:
>IMO, leafref as a documentation clause does the same thing
>but way simpler.  The DM reader should not have to be an expert
>in Xpath, and need to hunt down the relevant documentation,
>just to find out a leaf's data type.

Are you saying you prefer this relationship to be defined in English
words instead of a formal language?  The "description" statement
for the leaf can provide the words, but we hope to provide something
that a generic manager implementation can use to process module
contents.

>IMO, the whole issue of relationships between config database nodes is larger
>than this keyref clause.  The requirements for machine readable
>object constraint languages and object/entity relationships needs to
>be documented in detail and agreed upon.

So you want this issue pushed onto the Requirements Team?  Or do
you want a distinct requirements effort for this?

Thanks,
 Phil

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