On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 8:32 AM, Ladislav Lhotka <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 18 Dec 2015, at 17:06, Andy Bierman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > > > The revision rules only apply to published modules. > > Update rules of sec. 10 offer no such excuse. > That is a flaw in the draft > > > 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. > Vendors implement work-in-progress at their own risk. IMO we should do a better job publishing RFCs on time, and implement RFCs. > > > > > 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. > > This is a closed issue in YANG 1.1 > Lada > > Andy > > > > > > > > Lada > > > > > > Andy > > > > > > -- > > Ladislav Lhotka, CZ.NIC Labs > > PGP Key ID: E74E8C0C > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > netmod mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/netmod > > > > -- > Ladislav Lhotka, CZ.NIC Labs > PGP Key ID: E74E8C0C > > > > >
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