Ladislav Lhotka <[email protected]> wrote:
> Martin Bjorklund píše v St 10. 04. 2019 v 15:15 +0200:
> > Ladislav Lhotka <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Martin Bjorklund píše v St 10. 04. 2019 v 14:26 +0200:
> > > > Ladislav Lhotka <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > > 
> > > > > in a discussion in the yang-doctors mailing list, Acee noted that
> > > > > IANA probably hasn't yet implemented a procedure for updating YANG
> > > > > modules corresponding to IANA registries
> > > > 
> > > > I think that this is a false alarm.  IANA updates the modules
> > > > according to the process.
> > > > 
> > > > > (such a procedure is
> > > > > specified, e.g., in the IANA Considerations section of RFC 7224). It
> > > > > indeed seems to be the case - for example, a few new interface types
> > > > > have been added recently to
> > > > > 
> > > > > https://www.iana.org/assignments/ianaiftype-mib/ianaiftype-mib
> > > > > 
> > > > > but the module iana-if-type only exists in revision 2014-05-08.
> > > > 
> > > > See
> > > > https://www.iana.org/assignments/yang-parameters/yang-parameters.xhtml
> > > > 
> > > > The latest version is [email protected]
> > > > 
> > https://www.iana.org/assignments/yang-parameters/[email protected]
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > > A part of the problem may be that there is AFAIK no authoritative
> > > > > repository for
> > > > > YANG modules where IANA could put the new revisions.
> > > > 
> > > > See
> > > > https://www.iana.org/assignments/yang-parameters/yang-parameters.xhtml
> > > > 
> > > > This is the authoritative repo.  IANA gets new YANG modules directly
> > > > from the RFC editor before they are formatted into the ascii RFC.
> > > 
> > > Hmm, but then it is kept pretty secret:
> > > 
> > > - RFC 6020 only specifies the new registry "YANG Module Names" and media
> > types
> > > in IANA Considerations, not this authoritative module repository.
> > 
> > RFC 6020 defines the registry.  IANA maintains the registry.  The link
> > above is the link to this registry.  If you go to iana.org and search
> > for "YANG Module Names" this link is the first to be shown.
> 
> According to RFC 6020, it is "a registry for YANG module and submodule names".
> Maybe I am ignorant, but I really didn't know that complete modules can also 
> be
> retrieved. Also, it seems that only the most recent revision of the iana-*
> modules is kept there.

Right.  So the relevant RFC is really RFC 7224, which defines the
initial version of iana-if-type, and the rules for when to update it.

Technically, there's a new IANA registry called "iana-if-type YANG
Module", which is found here:
https://www.iana.org/assignments/iana-if-type/iana-if-type.xhtml


The fact that you can download the other YANG modules is a bonus ;-)


/martin




> 
> > 
> > 
> > > - YANG Catalog doesn't know about the recent revisions of iana-if-type.
> > 
> > That's a completely different issue!
> 
> Of course, but it shows that learning about existing modules & revisions (even
> the standard ones) isn't particularly easy.
> 
> Lada
> 
> > 
> > 
> > /martin
> -- 
> Ladislav Lhotka
> Head, CZ.NIC Labs
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> 
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