David Reid <[email protected]> writes: > section 6.3.1 states: > > If a YANG compiler does not support a particular extension, which > appears in a YANG module as an unknown-statement (see Section 14), > the entire unknown-statement MAY be ignored by the compiler. > > If a YANG parser does not support a particular extension, which > appears in a YANG module as an unknown-statement (see Section 14), > the entire unknown-statement MAY be ignored by the parser. Note
Implications of this statement are still not clear to me. Let's say some protocol introduces an extension that is critical for that protocol. Does the above sentence mean that an implementation of that protocol MAY ignore the extension if it happens to use a parser that doesn't support it? Lada > that even in this case the semantics associated with the extension > still apply (as if they were part of a description statement). > > I assume the repetitive wording is not intentional. > > -David Reid > > _______________________________________________ > netmod mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/netmod -- Ladislav Lhotka, CZ.NIC Labs PGP Key ID: E74E8C0C _______________________________________________ netmod mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/netmod
