On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 8:45 AM Acee Lindem (acee) <acee=
[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On 4/5/22, 11:37 AM, "Lsr on behalf of Jürgen Schönwälder" <
> [email protected] on behalf of [email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>     On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 01:48:25PM +0000, Acee Lindem (acee) wrote:
>     > [wg-member]
>     >
>     > The thing is that most of the existing RFCs use inet:ip-address
> rather inet:ip-address-no-zone. It would be better to if we could fix
> inet:ip-address in RFC 6991 BIS to not include the zone similar to what was
> done in the MIB (RFC 4001). However, we're getting the passive aggressive
> treatment on this point.
>     >
>
>     You either assume that all existing uses of inet:ip-address (inside
>     the IETF and outside the IETF) are wrong or you are willing to break
>     all the existing correct uses of inet:ip-address so that the type
>     matches your expectations.
>
>     The existing YANG update rules are pretty clear that changing the
>     semantics of definitions is not allowed. Hence, all the WG could do
>     is to deprecate ip-address and to introduce ip-address-zone.
>
> The best outcome would be to fix ip-address to not include the zone,
> introduce ip-address-zone, and deprecate ip-address-no-zone. My take all
> the is that all the existing usages do not require zone and this would be a
> fix as opposed to a change.
>
>
I don't think this will harm our implementations.
The type is still string. The pattern will change but that is handled by a
library.
Whatever pattern is used will get handled the same way.

The same problem exists for 'date' and 'date-no-zone' types,
but they are not used very much.

But...

Since import-without-revision is used most of the time,
a module importing ietf-inet-types will get what?
Very implementation-specific, that's what.
Maybe both versions of ip-address present in the same server, maybe not.



Acee
>
>     /js
>


Andy


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