> On 08 Mar 2016, at 16:20, Acee Lindem (acee) <a...@cisco.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On 3/8/16, 6:35 AM, "Ladislav Lhotka" <lho...@nic.cz> wrote:
> 
>> 
>>> On 08 Mar 2016, at 12:08, Acee Lindem (acee) <a...@cisco.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 3/8/16, 1:55 AM, "Martin Bjorklund" <m...@tail-f.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwael...@jacobs-university.de> wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 01:23:50AM +0000, Acee Lindem (acee) wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The thing about the static route definition for IPv4 and IPv6 is that
>>>>> their RIBs will have pretty much the same structure other than
>>>>> differences in address type. For other AFs, there may be other
>>>>> differences as well. For every augmentation, we’re essentially
>>>>> doubling
>>>>> the specification effort.
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> One benefit of having separate augmentations is that the data types
>>>>> are tighter. For example, the data model does not allow an IPv6 next
>>>>> hop for an IPv4 prefix, i.e., you can't mess up address families since
>>>>> the data model forces a clear separation (and generic validation will
>>>>> catch that in contrast to having the runtime catching inconsistent
>>>>> address family data).
>>>>> 
>>>>> How much that matters likely can be debated. But somehow it feels like
>>>>> keeping things separate allows for independent evolution, which may
>>>>> proof to be very handy in the future. I kind of liked Lada's approach
>>>>> to maintain the architectural separation in the data model.
>>>> 
>>>> I agree.  I think the model is more clear this way.  I guess I don't
>>>> understand why Acee wants to have a single module?
>>> 
>>> I was trying to eliminate the effort of updating both modules with the
>>> exact same augmentations. However, I guess I’m ready to relent on this
>>> point.
>> 
>> OK, thanks. Do we want to post another revision before IETF 95? If so, we
>> should probably do most preparations this week because I will be on
>> vacation next week.
> 
> I think we should at least try and get the structural changes posted
> before IETF 95. We can meet on next hops at IETF 95.

OK, so let's do it.

Thanks, Lada

> 
> Thanks,
> Acee
> 
> 
> 
>> 
>> Lada
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Acee 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> /martin
>>> 
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