On Jan 25, 2013, at 4:26 PM, t.petch <[email protected]> wrote:

> ... although we do get posts on the Netmod WG list saying what on earth
> are all these strange characters, so the format of YANG tree diagrams is
> not intuitive to all; there is probably an assumption of some (arcane?)
> piece of computer science in there somewhere.

It is certainly advisable to accompany such diagrams with some kind of caption. 
In any case, I find these diagrams pretty useful and see nothing really arcane, 
let alone computer science, in the output of

pyang --tree-help

Lada

> 
> Tom Petch
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Thomas Nadeau" <[email protected]>
> To: "Jan Medved (jmedved)" <[email protected]>; "Juergen Schoenwaelder"
> <[email protected]>; "Alia Atlas" <[email protected]>
> Cc: "Adrian Farrel" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 4:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [i2rs] format for information models
> 
> 
>> +2
>> 
>> On 1/24/13 11:31 AM, "Jan Medved (jmedved)" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> +1 for YANG tree diagrams to start with.
>>> 
>>> On 1/24/13 8:26 AM, "Juergen Schoenwaelder"
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:13:44AM -0500, Alia Atlas wrote:
>>>>> Juergen,
>>>>> 
>>>>> What would you recommend for an information model for i2rs?
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Frankly, I do not know. I am still unsure what the scope/complexity
> of
>>>> i2rs really is. To find out, I guess people just have to pick
>>>> something and get started. YANG tree diagrams are fine to get a
> quick
>>>> overview of YANG data models, they likely won't be the right tool if
>>>> many of data model items with more complex interrelationships are
>>>> involved - then you need additional diagrams.
>>>> 
>>>> /js
>>>> 
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