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.

It says:

  For any published change, ...


I agree w/ Andy that 6087bis could clarify what this means in terms of
IETF.


/martin


> > 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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> > 
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> > Lada
> > 
> > 
> > Andy
> > 
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