> On Jun 3, 2025, at 5:30 PM, Reshad Rahman <[email protected]> wrote: > > <RR> I do recall that in our discussions we had to have "Updated BFD IANA" > Module only in 1 document. What I don't remember is whether we considered > moving it to draft-ietf-bfd-secure-sequence-numbers instead of having it in > optimizing-authentication. But draft-ietf-bfd-secure-sequence-numbers would > still depend on bfd-stability since we're moving the documents together.
The fundamental headache is that there are circular dependencies in the documents. And, there's also a core dependency on assigning code points in one or more documents and then having the need to have one document only own the updated IANA module. And, as we discussed, even if we pulled the YANG module out into an uber-YANG module for the three documents, that only mildly cleans up the dependencies. That's why we left it in one of the documents. If IETF decides it wants to have IANA update these modules incrementally in a different fashion, we can leverage that mythical alternative methodology. Meanwhile, the documents reflect our best efforts. The IESG is encouraged to recommend better alternatives. -- Jeff
