> On 01 Oct 2015, at 09:33, Juergen Schoenwaelder 
> <j.schoenwael...@jacobs-university.de> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 09:24:52AM +0200, Ladislav Lhotka wrote:
>> Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwael...@jacobs-university.de> writes:
>> 
>>> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 01:01:36PM +0200, Ladislav Lhotka wrote:
>>>> Hi Randy,
>>>> 
>>>> thanks for the comments and proposed edits. Please see inline.
>>>> 
>>>> Randy Presuhn <randy_pres...@mindspring.com> writes:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi -
>>>>> 
>>>>>> From: Ladislav Lhotka <lho...@nic.cz>
>>>>>> Sent: Sep 29, 2015 7:07 AM
>>>>>> To: netmod@ietf.org
>>>>>> Subject: [netmod] 6020bis - anydata
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I propose to expand the text in Sec. 7.10 as follows:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> OLD
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>  The "anydata" statement is used to represent an unknown set of nodes
>>>>>>  that can be modelled with YANG.  An example of where this can be
>>>>>>  useful is a list of received notifications, where the exact
>>>>>>  notifications are not known as design time.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> NEW
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>  The "anydata" statement is used to represent an unknown set of nodes
>>>>>>  that can be modelled with YANG but for which the data model doesn't
>>>>>>  exist at module design time.
>>>>> 
>>>>> "doesn't exist" would not be appropriate for the example you provide
>>>>> below.  It would be incorrect if some of the notifications in your
>>>>> example had already been defined, even though "anydata" would still
>>>>> be necessary to handle others not yet defined.
>>>> 
>>>> Would "doesn't exist or cannot be determined at module design time" be 
>>>> better?
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> What about this:
>>> 
>>>  The "anydata" statement is used to represent a set of nodes that can
>>>  be modelled with YANG but for which the data model is not known at
>>>  module design time.
>> 
>> Fine by me. So here is an updated proposal:
>> 
>> OLD
>> 
>>   The "anydata" statement is used to represent an unknown set of nodes
>>   that can be modelled with YANG.  An example of where this can be
>>   useful is a list of received notifications, where the exact
>>   notifications are not known as design time.
>> 
>> NEW
>> 
>>   The "anydata" statement is used to represent an unknown set of nodes
>>   that can be modelled with YANG but for which the data model is not
>>   known at module design time. It is possible, though not required, for
>>   the data model for "anydata" content to become known through protocol
>>   signalling or other means that are outside the scope of this
>>   document, as is the server and client behaviour.
>> 
>>   An example of where this can be useful is a list of received
>>   notifications, where the exact notifications are not known at module
>>   design time.
>> 
> 
> While the proposed new text is longer and provides more explanation,
> which problem is the new text fixing?

It helps to make an argument that including a similar text that you proposed in 
the yang-json document is equally useless.

Lada

> 
> /js
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