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

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