IMHO it would be worth a try. If you wanted to only augment _some_ uses of a grouping, you could still do the same as today. Also, I would expect augmentations to only affect servers that support the module defining the augmentation. If verbosity were not an issue, why were groupings introduced in the first place? --- Alex
> -----Original Message----- > From: netmod [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Juergen > Schoenwaelder > Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2017 11:15 AM > To: Xufeng Liu <[email protected]> > Cc: NETMOD WG <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [netmod] Augmentation to Groupings > > 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 _______________________________________________ netmod mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/netmod
