On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 09:08:24PM +0100, Martin Bjorklund wrote: > Hi Tom, > > "tom p." <daedulus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Much of this I-D is about the idea that network management data objects > > can often take two different values. The I-D always refers to this as > > being two values but is that a limit that this architecture imposes; or > > can it be more? > > The I-D talks about two instantiations in the Objectives section, when > the original "config vs oper values" problem is explained, and how > NMDA solves the problem. > > But the archtecture allows for any number of instantiations; it all > depends on which datastores a particular server implements. For > example, a config node might have one value in <candidate>, a > different in <running> and yet a different value in <startup>. This > is not new to this document. > Right. Lets see there "two" is used: - 1st paragraph in 2. Objectives: I think the text is clear since it talks about a concrete example of a configured value and an operationally used value. - 2nd paragraph in 2. Objectives: This text talks about two separate branches in the old models, this should be fine. - 4th paragraph in 2. Objectives: I think this is potentially causing the confusion. It says: With the revised architectural model of datastores defined in this document, the data objects are defined only once in the YANG schema but independent instantiations can appear in two different datastores, one for configured values and one for operational state values. Perhaps a better wording would be this: With the revised architectural model of datastores defined in this document, the data objects are defined only once in the YANG schema but independent instantiations can appear in different datastores, e.g., for a configured value and one for an operationally used value. This e.g. then kind of continues the example the section started with. Would this change have avoided the question? /js -- Juergen Schoenwaelder Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH Phone: +49 421 200 3587 Campus Ring 1 | 28759 Bremen | Germany Fax: +49 421 200 3103 <http://www.jacobs-university.de/>