> On Oct 3, 2019, at 2:34 PM, Mahesh Jethanandani <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On Oct 3, 2019, at 2:37 AM, Rob Wilton (rwilton) <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Chris,
>> 
>> I know that this is late, but ...
>> 
>> The YANG packages draft 
>> (https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-rwilton-netmod-yang-packages-01, but an 
>> updated version will be posted soon), is currently using the module-tags 
>> typedef to allow a package definition to contain a list of tags.
>> 
>> E.g.
>> module: ietf-yang-package
>>      +--ro yang-package
>>         +--ro name                      yang:yang-identifier
>>         +--ro version                   yang-sem-ver
>>         +--ro revision-date?            yanglib:revision-identifier
>>         +--ro location*                 inet:uri
>>         +--ro description?              string
>>         +--ro reference?                string
>>         +--ro previous-version?         yang-sem-ver
>>         +--ro tag*                      tags:tag
>>         +--ro referentially-complete?   Boolean
>>         ...
>> 
>> This package definition goes into an instance data document, for which the 
>> schema should just be ietf-yang-package, but by it importing 
>> ietf-module-tags.yang, it effectively also pulls in the "container 
>> module-tags" into the schema for the package definition, that I don't think 
>> should be there.
>> 
>> If we keep package tags, then I think that there are two ways to fix this:
>> 
>> (1) Split ietf-module-tags into an ietf-module-tags-types.yang and a 
>> ietf-module-tags.yang.  But it would be very late to do this, and the 
>> packages draft isn't even a workgroup document at this stage.
> 
> I know it is late. But what will it take to split the tags-types module from 
> the tags module?

I do not understand why this is important at all. What does "pulls in" exactly 
mean?

Thanks,
Chris.

> 
>> 
>> (2) Have the package draft define its own "package tag" typedef, and not 
>> have an import reference on module-tags at all.  Probably if we do keep 
>> package tags, then we should also consider a mechanism by which they can be 
>> updated on a device equivalently to module tags.
>> 
>> I'm currently thinking that the second choice might be a better approach at 
>> this time, but wanted to check whether you or the WG had an opinion.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Rob
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: netmod <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Christian Hopps
>>> Sent: 25 September 2019 17:19
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Subject: Re: [netmod] I-D Action: draft-ietf-netmod-module-tags-09.txt
>>> 
>>> This adds the deprecated non-NMDA state module.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Chris.
>>> 
>>>> On Sep 25, 2019, at 12:15 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
>>> directories.
>>>> This draft is a work item of the Network Modeling WG of the IETF.
>>>> 
>>>>      Title           : YANG Module Tags
>>>>      Authors         : Christian Hopps
>>>>                        Lou Berger
>>>>                        Dean Bogdanovic
>>>>    Filename        : draft-ietf-netmod-module-tags-09.txt
>>>>    Pages           : 18
>>>>    Date            : 2019-09-25
>>>> 
>>>> Abstract:
>>>> This document provides for the association of tags with YANG modules.
>>>> The expectation is for such tags to be used to help classify and
>>>> organize modules.  A method for defining, reading and writing a
>>>> modules tags is provided.  Tags may be registered and assigned during
>>>> module definition; assigned by implementations; or dynamically
>>>> defined and set by users.  This document also provides guidance to
>>>> future model writers; as such, this document updates RFC8407.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
>>>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-netmod-module-tags/
>>>> 
>>>> There are also htmlized versions available at:
>>>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-netmod-module-tags-09
>>>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-netmod-module-tags-09
>>>> 
>>>> A diff from the previous version is available at:
>>>> https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-netmod-module-tags-09
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of
>>>> submission until the htmlized version and diff are available at
>>> tools.ietf.org.
>>>> 
>>>> Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at:
>>>> ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/
>>>> 
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