> On 01 Jul 2015, at 16:25, Benoit Claise <bcla...@cisco.com> wrote: > > Hi Lada, >>> ay >>> - >>> The set of annotations must be extensible in a distributed manner >>> so as to allow for defining new annotations without running into >>> the risk of collisions with annotations defined and used by >>> others. >>> >>> What does "in a distributed manner" mean? >> It means that different parties needn't coordinate the names and use of >> annotations, as long as they don't choose conflicting YANG module names >> or namespace URIs. > Ok, it was not too clear (to me) from the text.
I will add text to explain what “distributed” means. >> >>> >>> >>> - In the introduction, you mention: >>> Typical use cases are: >>> >>> o Deactivating a subtree in a configuration datastore while keeping >>> the data in place. >>> >>> o Complementing data model information with instance-specific data. >>> >>> o RPC operations may use metadata annotations for various purposes >>> in both requests and responses. For example, the <edit-config> >>> operation in the NETCONF protocol (seesection 7.2 of [RFC6241] >>> <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6241#section-7.2>) >>> uses annotations in the form of XML attributes for identifying the >>> point in the configuration and type of the operation. >>> >>> >>> Don't you have any other examples than those 3? >>> What about showing these examples with the spec. in this document? >>> Note: I see that the first one is documented with module >>> example-inactive >> Well, the backlash I received with >> draft-lhotka-netmod-yang-annotations-00 (expired) show that whilst there >> is consensus about general utility of annotations, practical definitions >> may be controversial. > Even as example? Yes, I am afraid. Lada >> I could add the annotations from the above draft >> as examples here but I fear they could still make for unnecessary >> discussions. >> >> Martin already pointed out in his review that it may be wiser to replace >> the "inactive" annotation with something less controversial. > ok. > > Regards, Benoit -- Ladislav Lhotka, CZ.NIC Labs PGP Key ID: E74E8C0C _______________________________________________ netmod mailing list netmod@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/netmod
