On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 11:57 PM, Juergen Schoenwaelder <
j.schoenwael...@jacobs-university.de> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 03, 2015 at 02:12:30PM -0700, Andy Bierman wrote:
>
> > I propose this text in the conformance leaf:
> >
> >                For import statements that do not specify a revision
> >                date, the most recent revision in the library SHOULD
> >                be used by the server.";
> >
> > It seems like a lot of data will be needed to model the dependency tree
> > for every import-stmt in every module.  Don't forget every include-stmt
> > as well, since submodules can import with or without revision.
> >
> > IMO "SHOULD use latest" is good enough.
> > Perhaps modules should use import-by-revision when they
> > are published as RFCs (as Lada suggested).
>
> This sounds like "lets pretend the world is simple so we have less
> work to do".
>
>
No -- YANG currently says if there is no revision date
then the implementation can use any revision,
This is also good enough.  Prove that this is causing interoperability
problems.  I don't think it is -- especially not such that the server
has to model all its imports so the client can retrieve the data.



> /js
>

Andy


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