Eric: 

Just a little bit of history - some of the past ADs suggested that 
informational models were optional.  Therefore, pushing forward with the 
information was difficult. 

In this case, the information model was helpful in distilling the key 
components for a capability model.  If you wish additional history, please let 
me know.  

Susan Hares 

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DISCUSS:
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Thank you for the work put into this document.

While I do appreciate that a data model (this document) is derived from an 
information model, I am concerned that the information model is an expired 
draft whereas I would expect the information model being published first. Else, 
what is the use of the information model ? What was the WG reasoning behind 
'putting the cart before the horses' ? My concern is that by publishing the 
YANG model, there is nearly no way to change the information model anymore.

Please find below a couple of non-blocking COMMENT points but also a couple of 
blocking DISCUSS points around IPv6. They should be easy to resolve. I would 
hate to have NSF having basic IPv6 capabilities that cannot be configured by 
using the YANG model of this document.

I hope that this helps to improve the document,

Regards,

-éric

== DISCUSS ==

-- Section 4.1 --

It is quite common to apply conditions based on the whole IPv6 extension header 
chain (i.e., presence of destination option header or wrong order of the 
extension headers). Why is there no such capabilities in this YANG module ? The 
only one is 'identity ipv6-next-header' that applies only to the first 
extension header.

What is the difference between 'identity ipv6-protocol' and 'identity 
ipv6-next-header' ? There is no 'protocol' field in the IPv6 header.

While fragmented IPv4 packets are part of the conditions ('identity 
ipv4-fragment-flags'), there is no equivalent in IPv6.


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COMMENT:
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-- Section 4.1 --
May be am I misreading the YANG tree, but, I see no 'sctp-capability' in the 
set of 'condition-capabilities' (even is SCTP is not heavily used).

Is there a real reason to have two related containers ?
generic-nsf-capabilities and advanced-nsf-capabilities. Why not a single one ?

Unsure what is meant by 'range' in 'identity range-ipv*-address'. Usually, 
addresses are filtered/matched by using a prefix length and not a range (that 
is difficult to implement in hardware).

Is there a reason why ICMP(v6) codes are not part of the conditions ?




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