The current approach may be verbose but it protects users of groupings from unwanted and uncontrolled side effects. Augmenting a grouping as suggested affects _all_ uses of a grouping; this can be tricky in situations where groupings are widely used.
/js On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 11:45:06AM -0500, Xufeng Liu wrote: > During the discussions of TE tunnel and topology models, we have found that > it is desirable to have the capability of augmenting a grouping. > > In our case, there are multiple technology specific models augmenting a > base generic model. In the base model, some groupings are used multiple > times, and each augmentation model needs to add more schema nodes to the > grouping structure. For now, we have to specify an “augment” statement for > each location where the grouping is used. Such an “augment” statement is > repeated many times. It would be convenient and cleaner if we could augment > the grouping. > > We’d like to hear opinions on the feasibility of such a capability. > > Thanks, > > - Xufeng > _______________________________________________ > netmod mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/netmod -- 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
