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

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