Hi Juergen,

> Operational state often has a different lifetime than config. Hence,


Hmm..Could you please clarify the above a bit more?

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Cheers,
Rajiv 









-----Original Message-----
From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <[email protected]>
Reply-To: Juergen Schoenwaelder <[email protected]>
Date: Friday, April 1, 2016 at 5:02 AM
To: Rajiv Asati <[email protected]>
Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [netmod] YANG - Intended-Config & Applied-Config & Derived-State & 
Operational-state...grrrr... !!

>Operational state often has a different lifetime than config. Hence,
>keeping config and operational state together in the same structure
>(with the same naming) causes you problems down the road.
>
>/js
>
>On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 06:44:06PM +0000, Rajiv Asati (rajiva) wrote:
>> 
>> While working on MPLS LDP yang model 
>> (https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-raza-mpls-ldp-mldp-yang), we noticed the 
>> possible confusion around structuring intended config, applied config and 
>> derived state *.
>> 
>> On one hand, one may have 'intended-config’ (RW) and ‘applied-config’ (RO) 
>> in the same construct (container), and ‘derived state’ (RO) in a separate 
>> construct (container). 
>> 
>>      This keeps config together, but doesn’t help operational state, which 
>> requires
>>      Both Applied-config and derived-state.
>> 
>> On the other hand hand, one may have ‘intended-config’ in one construct 
>> (container), and ‘applied-config’ and ‘derived state’ in a separate 
>> construct (container). 
>> 
>>      This simplifies figuring operational-state, but divides the config 
>> types.
>> 
>> There are pros & cons either way. It would be good to have some 
>> guidance/text around guiding one over another, so that other models can 
>> leverage. Otherwise, we are going to end up with yet one more discrepancy 
>> (among various protocols YANG models), & confusing if not inefficient 
>> modeling.
>> 
>> Perhaps, we ditch both of the above approaches, and settle on keeping all 
>> three of them in the same construct. It might simplify the organization a 
>> bit. Of course, that also has 2 options - have all the data types in 
>> intended-config, and then in applied-config and then in derived-state. Or 
>> have intended-config, applied-config and derived-state for each data type. 
>> Latter might be slightly better, given that not every data type will have 
>> all three.
>> 
>> 
>> Thoughts? 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Cheers,
>> Rajiv Asati
>> Distinguished Engineer, Cisco
>> 
>> 
>> * https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-netmod-opstate-reqs 
>> <https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-netmod-opstate-reqs-04>
>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-openconfig-netmod-opstate
>> 
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