Hi, I have argued several times in the past that the IANA interface list (and, for that matter, the iana-if-type module) is a useless pile of rubbish because
- for some interface classes (Ethernet, tunnels) it is way too coarse-grained - on the other hand, it contains a lot of stuff that nobody will ever use - using the cabalistic (and wrong, in fact) name "ethernetCsmacd" for Ethernet is outright stupid - YANG identities allow for encoding important relationships in interface types,in the flat list all this information is lost - as you say, implementing the iana-if-type module means that all interface types listed therein become valid. So yes, I do believe that it would be useful if authoritative expert groups develop a better structure of interface type identities. Lada On Thu, 2018-04-05 at 23:59 +0000, Alex Campbell wrote: > I haven't seen any previous discussions on the topic, but we have a similar > problem. > Note this is not really to do with YANG itself, so much as the practical > limitations of the software package that provides our CLI interface. > In NETCONF, the existence of extra unused identities doesn't pose any problem. > > From: netmod <netmod-boun...@ietf.org> on behalf of Bogaert, Bart (Nokia - > BE/Antwerp) <bart.boga...@nokia.com> > Sent: Thursday, 5 April 2018 8:21 p.m. > To: netmod@ietf.org > Subject: [netmod] An abundant amount of IANA if types... > > Hi, > > We were wondering if it would make sense to introduce features in the IANA if > types YANG model to enable grouping of related interface types. This would > allow implementations to include only the types it really requires (by > supporting the related features but not the others) and (in case of a CLI > interface) would reduce the possible completions if an operator would ask for > the possible values of the type of an interface. > Has this ever been considered/discussed? > > Best regards, > Bart > _______________________________________________ > netmod mailing list > netmod@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/netmod -- Ladislav Lhotka Head, CZ.NIC Labs PGP Key ID: 0xB8F92B08A9F76C67 _______________________________________________ netmod mailing list netmod@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/netmod
