Hi Per,

Thanks for what I hope will be a simplification of the change. Has the tooling 
change been made to accommodate the change?

Cheers.

> On Apr 15, 2026, at 2:07 AM, Per Andersson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Dear WG,
> 
> The YANG Versioning Design Team has come to the
> conclusion to not introduce another delimiter (the
> number sign, "#") for the YANG Semver versioning
> scheme in the YANG module filename convention,
> but instead reuse the existing delimiter (at sign, "@").
> Strings from either versioning convention will never
> match so it will trivial for tooling to infer version
> convention used, for humans it is easy to visually
> identify either versioning scheme as well.
> 
> The motivation is to simplify operations and to not
> introduce unnecessary turbulence for tools.
> 
> This also better aligns with points made in LC reviews
> from directorates and IANA.
> 
> 
> --
> Per
> 
> 
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2026 at 11:02 AM <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Internet-Draft draft-ietf-netmod-yang-module-filename-08.txt is now 
>> available.
>> It is a work item of the Network Modeling (NETMOD) WG of the IETF.
>> 
>>   Title:   YANG module file name convention
>>   Author:  Per Andersson
>>   Name:    draft-ietf-netmod-yang-module-filename-08.txt
>>   Pages:   6
>>   Dates:   2026-04-15
>> 
>> Abstract:
>> 
>>   This document presents YANG module file name convention.  The
>>   convention extends the current YANG module file name using
>>   revision-date, with the YANG semantic version extension.  The YANG
>>   semantic version extension allows for an informative version to be
>>   associated with a particular YANG module revision.
>> 
>>   This documents updates RFCs 6020, 7950, and
>>   draft-ietf-netmod-rfc8407bis.
>> 
>> The IETF datatracker status page for this Internet-Draft is:
>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-netmod-yang-module-filename/
>> 
>> There is also an HTML version available at:
>> https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-netmod-yang-module-filename-08.html
>> 
>> A diff from the previous version is available at:
>> https://author-tools.ietf.org/iddiff?url2=draft-ietf-netmod-yang-module-filename-08
>> 
>> Internet-Drafts are also available by rsync at:
>> rsync.ietf.org::internet-drafts
>> 
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