On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 10:28 AM Kent Watsen <[email protected]> wrote:
> > So you want to work on YANG 1.2, but just the parts you want to change? ;-) > > I am actually fine with not doing any changes to YANG 1.1 at all, except > perhaps > bug fixes. This doesn't necessarily mean closing the NETMOD WG, it would > IMO be > immensely useful to rewrite the language specification and remove NETCONF- > and > XML-specific part. > > > +1. There are plenty of ambiguities and NETCONF/XML pollution in the > spec. Having the specifications in a DAG would be immensely useful :) > > > Agreed and I should've mentioned before that Martin said in Prague that > he'd already started this effort, seeing it as a necessary pre-step before > making other changes. I'm unsure if the intention is to release this by > itself as an RFC 7950 bis but, if looking for a minimal change, that might > be it. The next rung up would be to just add clarifications. The next > rung up from there would be to add only backwards-compatible changes > (currently targeted by [1]). The last rung being to also target NBC > changes (there's no consensus to do this). > > This WG sure likes to spend time refactoring documents. Moving lots of text will create bugs and strong coupling, and only help the standards purists. It will be a lot of work for the WG and IESG to review such a massive document split, and in the end we have no improvement in YANG, just more RFCs to read. Andy [1] https://github.com/netmod-wg/yang-next/projects/2 > > Kent > > >
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