On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 7:41 AM, Benoit Claise <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Lada,
>
>>
>>
>>>>> - In the introduction, you mention:
>>>>>      Typical use cases are:
>>>>>
>>>>>      o  Deactivating a subtree in a configuration datastore while
>>>>> keeping
>>>>>         the data in place.
>>>>>
>>>>>      o  Complementing data model information with instance-specific
>>>>> data.
>>>>>
>>>>>      o  RPC operations may use metadata annotations for various
>>>>> purposes
>>>>>         in both requests and responses.  For example, the <edit-config>
>>>>>         operation in the NETCONF protocol (seesection 7.2 of [RFC6241]
>>>>> <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6241#section-7.2>)
>>>>>         uses annotations in the form of XML attributes for identifying
>>>>> the
>>>>>         point in the configuration and type of the operation.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Don't you have any other examples than those 3?
>>>>> What about showing these examples with the spec. in this document?
>>>>> Note: I see that the first one is documented with module
>>>>> example-inactive
>>>>>
>>>> Well, the backlash I received with
>>>> draft-lhotka-netmod-yang-annotations-00 (expired) show that whilst there
>>>> is consensus about general utility of annotations, practical definitions
>>>> may be controversial.
>>>>
>>> Even as example?
>>>
>> Yes, I am afraid.
>>
> I would be in favor to have at the very minimum one example.
> Otherwise, it's difficult to visualize how these metadata should be used.
>
>

We support an attribute called "owner" which is basically the I2RS
client-id.
At ;least one solution proposal for I2RS is going to allow retrieval of the
metadata from the ephemeral datastore (e.g., client-id, secondary-id).
Perhaps an example like this will not be controversial.



> Regards, Benoit (as a contributor)
>


Andy


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