See inline.
On 4/8/22, 1:59 PM, "netmod on behalf of Randy Presuhn"
<[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote:
Hi -
On 2022-04-08 5:11 AM, Christian Hopps wrote:
..
> Instead, Acee (I'm not sure I'd call him WG B :) is asserting that
> *nobody* actually wanted the current type, and it has been misused
> everywhere and all over. The vast majority of implementations in
> operation probably can't even handle the actual type (Andy's point). So,
> Acee is just the messenger of bad news here. Please note that the AD in
> charge of all this agreed with Acee as well.
That's not the impression one gets from modules like
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-mpls-mldp-yang-10.txt
which employs both types. So, regardless of whether one is willing
to respect YANG's compatibility rules, it's no longer a matter of
speculation whether a name change would cause actual damage -
it clearly would. Furthermore, my recollection is that the
WG *did* discuss whether the "zonable" property was needed, so
any argument based on the assertion that "*nobody* actually
wanted the current type" seems to me to based on a false premise.
If you look at the existing YANG RFCs rather than drafts that are confirming to
the error, you'll notice that they don't use the no-zone types:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc8344/
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc8349/
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc8519/
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9067/
Also, if you look at the SNMP RFC 4001, you'll note that the base types do not
include the zone index and RFC8344 references the MIB types using the base
types (see snippet below). Clearly, it was wrong to make the IP addresses
including the zone the default and I'm not sure why there is all this effort
not to just admit, fix the RFC 6991 BIS version, and be done with it.
InetAddressIPv4 ::= TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
DISPLAY-HINT "1d.1d.1d.1d"
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"Represents an IPv4 network address:
Octets Contents Encoding
1-4 IPv4 address network-byte order
The corresponding InetAddressType value is ipv4(1).
This textual convention SHOULD NOT be used directly in object
definitions, as it restricts addresses to a specific format.
However, if it is used, it MAY be used either on its own or in
conjunction with InetAddressType, as a pair."
SYNTAX OCTET STRING (SIZE (4))
InetAddressIPv6 ::= TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
DISPLAY-HINT "2x:2x:2x:2x:2x:2x:2x:2x"
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"Represents an IPv6 network address:
Octets Contents Encoding
1-16 IPv6 address network-byte order
The corresponding InetAddressType value is ipv6(2).
This textual convention SHOULD NOT be used directly in object
definitions, as it restricts addresses to a specific format.
However, if it is used, it MAY be used either on its own or in
conjunction with InetAddressType, as a pair."
SYNTAX OCTET STRING (SIZE (16))
InetAddressIPv4z ::= TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
DISPLAY-HINT "1d.1d.1d.1d%4d"
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"Represents a non-global IPv4 network address, together
with its zone index:
Octets Contents Encoding
1-4 IPv4 address network-byte order
5-8 zone index network-byte order
The corresponding InetAddressType value is ipv4z(3).
The zone index (bytes 5-8) is used to disambiguate identical
address values on nodes that have interfaces attached to
different zones of the same scope. The zone index may contain
the special value 0, which refers to the default zone for each
scope.
This textual convention SHOULD NOT be used directly in object
definitions, as it restricts addresses to a specific format.
However, if it is used, it MAY be used either on its own or in
conjunction with InetAddressType, as a pair."
SYNTAX OCTET STRING (SIZE (8))
InetAddressIPv6z ::= TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
DISPLAY-HINT "2x:2x:2x:2x:2x:2x:2x:2x%4d"
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"Represents a non-global IPv6 network address, together
with its zone index:
Octets Contents Encoding
1-16 IPv6 address network-byte order
17-20 zone index network-byte order
The corresponding InetAddressType value is ipv6z(4).
The zone index (bytes 17-20) is used to disambiguate
identical address values on nodes that have interfaces
attached to different zones of the same scope. The zone index
may contain the special value 0, which refers to the default
zone for each scope.
This textual convention SHOULD NOT be used directly in object
definitions, as it restricts addresses to a specific format.
However, if it is used, it MAY be used either on its own or in
conjunction with InetAddressType, as a pair."
SYNTAX OCTET STRING (SIZE (20))
Acee
Randy
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