Last Call Review of draft-ietf-bfd-yang-09
review-ietf-bfd-yang-09-rtgdir-lc-singh-2018-02-10-00

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Document: draft-ietf-bfd-yang-09
Reviewer: Ravi Singh
Review Date: 02/09/2018
Intended Status: Proposed standard

Summary: there is more commonality of info in the new modules listed in
sections 2.6-2.10 than there are differences. So, I think it would be
worthwhile looking at sub-abstracting things to avoid repetitive fields
individually listed in the modules of section 2.6-2.10.

Details:
I've reviewed the draft. Most sections look good.
My comments below pertain to 2.6 to 2.10.
Section 2 says "Since BFD is used for liveliness detection of various forwarding
   paths, there is no uniform key to identify a BFD session.  So the BFD
   data model is split in multiple YANG modules where each module
   corresponds to one type of forwarding path. "
That is ok. However, this is causing too much repetition of info across the
multiple modules. There appears to be scope for modularization to not repeat
the individual fields in describing them in every module that uses them.
Instead sub-modules should be considered & listed in one section which just
augment the newly created modules of this draft wherever currently used.

Eg.
Separate sub-modules could be considered for:
A.
        +--ro session-statistics
        |  +--ro session-count?              uint32
        |  +--ro session-up-count?           uint32
        |  +--ro session-down-count?         uint32
        |  +--ro session-admin-down-count?   uint32

B.
           +--rw source-addr                 inet:ip-address
           +--rw dest-addr                   inet:ip-address
           +--rw local-multiplier?           multiplier
           +--rw (interval-config-type)?
           |  +--:(tx-rx-intervals)
           |  |  +--rw desired-min-tx-interval?    uint32
           |  |  +--rw required-min-rx-interval?   uint32
           |  +--:(single-interval)
           |     +--rw min-interval?               uint32
           +--rw demand-enabled?             boolean {demand-mode}?
           +--rw admin-down?                 boolean
           +--rw authentication! {authentication}?
           |  +--rw key-chain?    kc:key-chain-ref
           |  +--rw meticulous?   Boolean

C.
              +--ro path-type?              identityref
              +--ro ip-encapsulation?       boolean
              +--ro local-discriminator?    discriminator
              +--ro remote-discriminator?   discriminator
              +--ro remote-multiplier?      multiplier
              +--ro demand-capability?      boolean {demand-mode}?
              +--ro source-port?            inet:port-number
              +--ro dest-port?              inet:port-number
              +--ro session-running
              |  +--ro session-index?                uint32
              |  +--ro local-state?                  state
              |  +--ro remote-state?                 state
              |  +--ro local-diagnostic?
              |  |       iana-bfd-types:diagnostic
              |  +--ro remote-diagnostic?
              |  |       iana-bfd-types:diagnostic
              |  +--ro remote-authenticated?         boolean
              |  +--ro remote-authentication-type?
              |  |       iana-bfd-types:auth-type {authentication}?
              |  +--ro detection-mode?               enumeration
              |  +--ro negotiated-tx-interval?       uint32
              |  +--ro negotiated-rx-interval?       uint32
              |  +--ro detection-time?               uint32
              |  +--ro echo-tx-interval-in-use?      uint32
              |          {echo-mode}?
              +--ro sesssion-statistics
                 +--ro create-time?            yang:date-and-time
                 +--ro last-down-time?         yang:date-and-time
                 +--ro last-up-time?           yang:date-and-time
                 +--ro down-count?             uint32
                 +--ro admin-down-count?       uint32
                 +--ro receive-packet-count?   uint64
                 +--ro send-packet-count?      uint64
                 +--ro receive-bad-packet?     uint64
                 +--ro send-failed-packet?     Uint64

D.
           +--rw (interval-config-type)?
           |  +--:(tx-rx-intervals)
           |  |  +--rw desired-min-tx-interval?    uint32
           |  |  +--rw required-min-rx-interval?   uint32
           |  +--:(single-interval)
           |     +--rw min-interval?               uint32

E.

              +--ro sesssion-statistics
              |  +--ro create-time?            yang:date-and-time
              |  +--ro last-down-time?         yang:date-and-time
              |  +--ro last-up-time?           yang:date-and-time
              |  +--ro down-count?             uint32
              |  +--ro admin-down-count?       uint32
              |  +--ro receive-packet-count?   uint64
              |  +--ro send-packet-count?      uint64
              |  +--ro receive-bad-packet?     uint64
              |  +--ro send-failed-packet?     uint64

F.       In notifications:
        +--ro local-discr?                 discriminator
        +--ro remote-discr?                discriminator
        +--ro new-state?                   state
        +--ro state-change-reason?         iana-bfd-types:diagnostic
        +--ro time-of-last-state-change?   yang:date-and-time
        +--ro dest-addr?                   inet:ip-address
        +--ro source-addr?                 inet:ip-address
        +--ro session-index?               uint32
        +--ro path-type?                   identityref

Separate sub-modules for the above could be used to enable cleaner
abstractions. The same could augment the modules of sections 2.6-2.10.

Regards
Ravi