I am wondering whether this convention cannot be documented in rfc8407bis

My 2 cents

Italo

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carsten Bormann <[email protected]>
> Sent: martedì 29 agosto 2023 21:27
> To: netmod <[email protected]>
> Subject: [netmod] List name: singular or plural?
> 
> Should list names be singular or plural?
> 
> 
> Archived-At: <https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/last-
> call/Nh_O8sREv7mBri2_lbIaijorjNE>
> As a convention, in IETF YANG modules, the node name of a list is in the
> singular form.
> Above the list there can be a container with a name in the plural form.
> 
> This seems to be supported by the example in 4.26 in RFC 8407.
> 
> 
> Archived-At: <https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/last-
> call/ERVfU5u9vwFe5VxOHcRN72EgBHY>
> The usual YANG convention is for a list to be plural and the leaf singular.  
> You
> have the plural list but not the leaf.  And who needs the container?  This is
> mpls not a common module that might be augmented so what does the
> container give apart from complexity?
> 
> (Note that this is contradicting the above.)
> 
> 
> RFC 9243 has plural for              leaf-list interfaces {
> also RFC 9127          list interfaces {
> 
> 
> All examples in RFC 9254 (YANG-CBOR) have singular list names
> 
> 
> RFC8040:
>      container interfaces {
>        description "System interfaces.";
>        list interface {
> 
> RFC6243:
>      container interfaces {
>          description "Example interfaces group";
>          list interface {
>            description "Example interface entry”;
> 
> The singular list name seems to be quite popular with a plural container name.
> Where there is no such container name, it gets a bit more mixed.
> 
> Is there a document that I could consult?
> 
> Grüße, Carsten
> 
> 

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