On Nov 7, 2013:8:49 AM, at 8:49 AM, Jan Medved (jmedved) <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> Hi Juergen
> 
> On 11/7/13 6:53 AM, "Juergen Schoenwaelder"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 09:21:38AM -0500, Russ White wrote:
>>> 
>>>> If we have a device-centric model showing interfaces and so on, then
>>> there's
>>>> not a good way to express the learned IGP topology.  Would we then
>>> need a
>>>> different IM - perhaps as part of an IGP-specific IM - to communicate
>>> the
>>>> topology learned via the IGP?  Would that be preferable?
>>> 
>>> Yes, you are going to need different network models for different
>>> protocols,
>>> services, etc. There's not going to be any way to combine such models
>>> into a
>>> "coherent whole."
>>> 
>> 
>> Data models for different protocols such as OSPF or BGP have so far
>> been done in WGs that care about those protocols and this has
>> generally worked well as far as I can tell. We are now moving towards
>> YANG models for configuration and state data and a general framework
>> for YANG routing models has been defined in the NETMOD WG [1] (the
>> next update of this document will go to WG last call). We expect that
>> BGP, OSPF, ... specific extensions of this core routing model will be
>> produced and we envision that this work takes place in the routing
>> area, e.g., in WGs maintaining these routing protocols. Of course,
>> we first need concrete proposals to start from.
>> 
>> I think what I am saying is that (a) there is work going on outside of
>> I2RS and we better avoid overlapping activities and (b) I like to
>> remind you that work can be split and it is not necessary that I2RS
>> creates all data models on its own.
> 
> I2RS is not chartered to develop data models  - it's chartered to develop
> *information models*. Not that I agree or disagree, I am just pointing out
> a subtle difference, which however has a practical impact: for example,
> for the topology model, we first developed a yang data model which was
> presented in the netmod WG. Then we also created a corresponding
> information model which was presented in the i2rs WG. For the I2RS RIB
> information model, there is a corresponding RIB yang data model, where we
> worked with Lada and aligned it with [1]. We would want to present it at
> the next IETF.
> 
> So, there are no overlapping activities - the way the I2RS charter is
> defined, the WG operates at a different level. It has yet to decide what
> data modeling language should be adopted for i2rs, or whether data models
> would be developed in the WG.

        Spot on. 

        --Tom


> 
> 
> 
>> 
>> /js
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Jan
> 
>> 
>> [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-netmod-routing-cfg-11
>> 
>> -- 
>> Juergen Schoenwaelder           Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH
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