On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 07:22:55PM +0000, Kent Watsen wrote: > With limited experience wrt the impact on servers, as a client, it’s always > best for the opstate data to be modeled as accurately as possible, for better > processing and user experience. >
What is accurate? I think the answer is "it depends". There are states that a model allows to represent and there are states it does not allow to represent. If a device ends up in a state that the model can't represent, then the device has a problem, From a debugging point of view, the worst is a device in a state that can't be represented propoerly reporting a valid state it is not in. So like everything else, it is a modeling decision, like picking types and everything else. I am not sure that 'as accurate as possible" is a helpful guideline; for operational state I prefer to see as much as possible the device's true state. (But even picking data types for leaves restricts what can be represented, so it is a judgement call.) /js -- Jürgen Schönwälder Constructor University Bremen gGmbH Phone: +49 421 200 3587 Campus Ring 1 | 28759 Bremen | Germany Fax: +49 421 200 3103 <https://constructor.university/> _______________________________________________ netmod mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/netmod
