> On 18 Dec 2015, at 17:06, Andy Bierman <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 7:49 AM, Ladislav Lhotka <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> if we want people to take YANG modules appearing in I-Ds seriously and 
> implement them, then we should apply the revisioning rules to them. That is, 
> if a module changes between two I-D revisions, then its revision-date has to 
> be bumped and a new entry added to the revision history. As it is now, the 
> I-D-based modules are esentially revisionless.
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> The revision rules only apply to published modules.

Update rules of sec. 10 offer no such excuse.

> In IETF-speak, that means an RFC.  An Internet Draft
> is a work-in-progress.  We update the revision date every time
> the module changes, but the numerous incremental changes
> for a work-in-progress should not be recorded in the module
> revision history.  They should be recorded in the Change Log appendix.

Revision numbers are critical for interoperability. If we want vendors to 
implement modules such as ietf-routing now, the revisions must be solid and 
reliable.

> 
> I will try to make this procedure more clear in the YANG guidelines draft.

I think it should be the other way around: YANG spec should not contain the 
update rules (because we all ignore them for I-D-based modules, right?), but 
the IETF guidelines should specify the policy you describe.

Lada

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