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

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