Subject: [netmod] multi-instance-identifier

From: Ladislav Lhotka <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 13:35:38 +0100

Hi,

the module "ietf-netconf-acm" defines its own instance-identifier type (node-instance-identifier) in order to be able to refer to multiple instances in one rule. This has some drawbacks because generic tools cannot recognize it as an instance-identifier, so for example automatic translation between XML and JSON doesn't work properly.

So I wonder: is it really important that instance-identifier always point to a single node only?

A backward-compatible solution would be to introduce a new statement, e.g.

  multi-instance true;

and

  require-instance true;

would mean that at least one instance has to be present.

Lada

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