On Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 11:25:35AM +0000, Robert Wilton wrote:
> 
> Even if they don't break, debug and diagnostics information can be very
> verbose.
> 
> If a client had 4 connections to a device for monitoring different things,
> then you don't want to suddenly start sending a large amount of extra
> diagnostics data on each of the 4 connections when they have only requested
> it on one connection.  Generating this extra data could overload the client
> or the device, or certainly lead to degraded performance in some way or
> another.
>

Then the client probably should have used a proper filter. Augments
are a key feature of YANG. A client not interested in any additional
data should not (implicitely) ask for it. (It does not matter whether
the additional data is debugging or other information; if you do not
need it, do not as for it if you want to be robust.)

/js

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