On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 10:59:11AM +0100, Ladislav Lhotka wrote:
> 
> If the "config" statement really carried some protocol-specific semantics 
> that isn't meaningful for all potential uses of YANG, it would be better to 
> remove it from core YANG and define it as an extension that would be 
> mandatory for configuration protocols that need it.
>

YANG exists because we wanted to describe and manage configurations. And
some people still want to do this. I understand that you want to turn YANG
into a general purpose data modeling language. But I am not sure this is
consensus. As of today, config true means what is defined in RFC 6020
and RFC 7950.

/js

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