On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 08:09:55PM +0000, Kent Watsen wrote:
> Sure, one mandatory to implement format, others nice to have.
> Interoperability good.  Agreed.
> 
> But why YANG-patch and not something built for the purpose
> (e.g., YANG-diff) that, in particular, provides an actual diff as
> opposed to a data-tree operation that only shows one of the
> two values?

Because this is yet a third format. There is a certain benefit if a
diff format can also be used to patch. If we create a new diff format,
guess what will come up next...

/js

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