> On 13 Oct 2015, at 13:01, Juergen Schoenwaelder > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 05:37:36PM +0000, Kent Watsen wrote: >> >> This is a notice to start a NETMOD WG last call for the document: >> >> Defining and Using Metadata with YANG >> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-netmod-yang-metadata-02 >> >> Please indicate your support by Thursday October 22, 2015 at 9PM EDT. >> We are not only interested in receiving defect reports, we are equally >> interested in statements of the form: >> > > I am concerned about this text: > > Annotations modify the schema of datastores and/or management > protocol messages, and may also change their semantics. Therefore, > due care has to be exercised when introducing annotations in > network management systems in order to avoid interoperability > problems and software failures. > > I think we should actually very clearly discourage annotations that > modify the schema of datastores and/or management protocol messages > instead of assuming all annotations are free to do so.
Annotations modify the schemas by definition because otherwise XML attributes, and objects in JSON encoding whose names start with "@", are not allowed. Lada > > /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/> > > _______________________________________________ > 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
