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+module odl-external-reference {
+    // vi: set et smarttab sw=4 tabstop=4:
+
+    yang-version 1;
+    // FIXME: this mode should go to OpenDaylight/mdsal
+    namespace "urn:opendaylight:params:xml:ns:yang:external:reference";
+    prefix "extref";
+
+    organization "Cisco Systems, Inc.";
+
+    contact "Robert Varga <rovarga@cisco.com>";
+
+    description
+        "Model defining the base type for external references for use instead
+        of an instance-identifier, which does not allow referencing entities
+        unknown in the model (due to imports, etc.).
+
+        Copyright (c) 2016 Cisco Systems, Inc. and others.  All rights reserved.
+
+        This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
+        terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 which accompanies this distribution,
+        and is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html";
+
+    revision "2016-01-29" {
+        description "Initial model";
+    }
+
+    typedef external-reference {
+        description "Reference to a YANG-modeled node which resides outside
+            of this system. The format must use module names as namespace
+            prefixes -- in a similar fashion RESTCONF does. The reference
+            is evaluated from the root of the external system.
+
+            This data type does not hold the coordinates of the external
+            system, nor does it specify which data store on the external
+            system should be used to satisfy the reference. This information
+            should be described in the model which instantiates a leaf of
+            this type.";
+        type string;
+    }
+}