On Mar 23, 2013 10:16 PM, "Andy Bierman" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 7:33 AM, Russ White <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >.....
> > But it means we're back to square one --any off box process that wants
> > to work with the local RIB on a wide variety of boxes must poke through
> > the documentation (almost never complete, by intention) of each of those
> > boxes, and build an internal data model that can be used for that
> > individual box. This lays the problem of data modeling squarely on the
> > shoulders of the application developer.
> >
> > I'd prefer a least common denominator set of things we know we need to
> > build a RIB (not a forwarding table a RIB), from the start, and then
> > build where we see more stuff we can do in the future.
> >
> > Start small and grow up, don't start big and try to fill out the details
> > --IMHO.
>
>
> This is an important point.
> Do you want a framework that is filled in by vendors
> (and possibly SDOs) that may be different on each platform,
> or do you want a common API that provides basic functionality
> that all vendors must implement? Or both?

[Alia] A common API that provides basic functionality that all vendors must
implement.   Having it extensible for different features is desirable.

>
> It's too early to be reviewing YANG modules for I2RS
> but it would be good to know the direction the API is headed.

[Alia]  Absolutely too early, but not for information models.

>
> > Russ
>
> Andy
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