On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 09:20:52PM +0000, Kent Watsen wrote: > > > It's unclear to me why Y45-04 is needed at all. Doesn't a newer revision > of a module contain all the same typedefs from before, and thus a module > could import just the more recent revision to get everything it needs? > Why would a module ever have to import an older revision? > > RFC 6020 says "New typedefs, groupings, rpcs, notifications, extensions, > features, and identities may be added." I take this to imply that they > cannot be removed or even renamed. Is this not the case? >
The definitions can be changed and Y45 is about making sure that we always know precisely which definition is used - this was called typedef drift and grouping drift. Please check the extensive discussions we had about this plus the I-Ds people wrote about this. I do not think we should restart this discussion once more. /js -- Juergen Schoenwaelder Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH Phone: +49 421 200 3587 Campus Ring 1 | 28759 Bremen | Germany Fax: +49 421 200 3103 <http://www.jacobs-university.de/> _______________________________________________ netmod mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/netmod
