On Thu, Apr 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM Michael Richardson <m...@sandelman.ca> wrote:
> Per Andersson <per.i...@ionio.se> wrote: > > In my recent YANG Doctors review of > draft-ietf-netmod-sub-intf-vlan-model > > I stated that it is a recommendation to not use the "-grouping" > suffix for > > grouping identifiers. > > That seems reasonable... yet I think that it gets done because otherwise > the > name "foo" becomes unusable otherwise? > > Quite usable to the YANG compiler, but maybe not user-friendly enough. This 'bad' practice (foo-grouping) has been used in RFCs as recently as RFC 9640. In general, avoiding redundancy is a good idea, but naming conventions for different types of identifiers are quite common. > > I suggest we add the following text to rfc8407bis Section 4.3.1: > > > Identifiers SHOULD NOT be prefixed or suffixed with their type. > > For instance creating a grouping with the suffix "-grouping" > > SHOULD be avoided. > > > > -- > > Per > > Andy > > _______________________________________________ > > netmod mailing list -- netmod@ietf.org > > To unsubscribe send an email to netmod-le...@ietf.org > > _______________________________________________ > netmod mailing list -- netmod@ietf.org > To unsubscribe send an email to netmod-le...@ietf.org >
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