On Fri, 21 Mar 2025, Saku Ytti wrote:
100% on board data-first/model-first internal representation (I think Junos, SROS, maybe others today?) 0% on board for standard models
Juniper (JunOS), Nokia (SROS) and Cisco (XR) are all YANG-model-first with proprietary models needed to do anything in the configuration engine, so their proprietary models are feature complete from a configuration pov. I've run into others as well, for instance the ones made using Conf-D. When discussing translation, question is what to translate to/from. The only way would be to create a standard model, which is exactly what's being done in multiple SDOs, for instance openconfig and ietf. As you say, they'll always be a subset, but if you can get by with openconfig for some of the functionality then devices supporting the openconfig model from multiple vendors can be configured for that subset using a single model instead of using the proprietary models. -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se