On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 8:32 AM, Ladislav Lhotka <[email protected]> wrote:

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> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > The revision rules only apply to published modules.
>
> Update rules of sec. 10 offer no such excuse.
>


That is a flaw in the draft



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> > 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.



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> >
> > 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



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