On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 04:29:48PM +0000, Alexander Clemm (alex) wrote: > > You could model a hierarchy of network types also through a hierarchy of > identities, as you indicate in your example. Sure, in your example this is a > viable alternative, but it is not clear what you would gain through that. > For one, in the case of "otn-topology", the fact that the same topology is > also an ietf-te-topology is rather implicit, not explicit. Per Robert's > point, if for some reason you have multiple traits and want to "compose" a > network to encompass multiple types, this is straightforward to do with the > current pattern, not so straightforward with identities. >
Alex, can you further detail why a hierarchy of containers is more straightforward in some cases than a hierarchy of identities? /js -- Juergen Schoenwaelder Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH Phone: +49 421 200 3587 Campus Ring 1 | 28759 Bremen | Germany Fax: +49 421 200 3103 <http://www.jacobs-university.de/> _______________________________________________ i2rs mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i2rs
