On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 08:30:59PM +0000, Acee Lindem (acee) wrote:
> 
> No - there are multiple devices in the network and they could have different 
> level of support. For example, OSPF will accept OSPF Link State Advertisement 
> (LSA) TLV types that it doesn't yet understand. The OSPF Link State Database 
> can be retrieved via a YANG model. This seems like a pretty basic use case to 
> me. 

If multiple different TLVs that are unknown to the server but that
exist in the link state database all map to a single unknown identity,
then you loose potentially important information. Perhaps you have no
other choice than modeling TLVs using tag numbers instead of
identities.

/js

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