> I meant the current work is using extensions instead of new language > statements. > Not that the yang-version will never be changed in the future.
Ah, okay. > It is not a matter of "when" if new functionality is added via extensions. > In theory the WG could add new functionality to YANG 1.1 this way for years. > In practice it might be difficult to achieve widespread interoperability if > nobody > agrees what "YANG next" actually contains. Also, YANG 1.1 clearly says a > tool MAY > skip over and ignore ANY external statement, so it is problematic to use > extension-stmt > as if it was defining real statements. It is better to have a tool clearly > fail > with an "unsupported YANG version" error than it is to silently ignore > external statements. Agreed. K. _______________________________________________ netmod mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/netmod
