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   <front>
      <title>Some Refinements to Network Topologies (RFC8345)</title>
      <author initials="N." surname="Davis" fullname="Nigel Davis">
         <organization>Ciena</organization>
      </author>
      <author initials="O." surname="Havel" fullname="Olga Havel">
         <organization>Huawei</organization>
      </author>
      <author initials="B." surname="Claise" fullname="Benoît Claise">
         <organization>Huawei</organization>
      </author>
      <date month="July" day="8" year="2024" />
      <abstract>
	 <t>   This draft provides a brief analysis of the current unidirectional
   point-to-point approach to modeling of the link in RFC8345,
   highlights why this is not sufficient and makes a proposal to enhance
   RFC8345 YANG to support multipoint uni/bi links.  The two alternative
   enhancement approaches proposed are backward compatible.  The
   enhancement is such that it provides a uniform solution to modeling
   all links that could, over time, replace the current unidirectional
   point-to-point approach.  The rationale for the change is based on
   many years of practical experience, including challenges using
   RFC8345 in actual solution development, and insight gained through
   other standardisation efforts and deployments.

	 </t>
      </abstract>
   </front>
   <seriesInfo name="Internet-Draft" value="draft-davis-nmop-some-refinements-to-rfc8345-00" />
   
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