Suresh The concern I have is that it muddies the waters further on the standing of tunnels so while I think that its proposals for ifType per se are fine, I would like it to make explicit that tunnels are out-of-scope at this time.
I have been trying to reconcile the workings of softwire, in creating a tunnel YANG module, with the existing IANA structure and failing. I believe that is because the current status of tunnels is unclear. Thus the softwire I-D refers to a registry that does not exist (as such) although the URL that the softwire I-D does. I think the timing unfortunate in that IMHO the softwires I-D will get pressed ahead before this work can complete, so quite what this I-D then says about tunnels will be coloured by what then exists for tunnels. So this I-D should make clear what a tunnel is, when it is not an interface, but otherwise declaring tunnels out-of-scope, for a future I-D to do a comparable job for tunnels, setting up a tunnel registry from which MIB modules, YANG modules and anything else can be derived (as long as the relevant data is supplied - SMI needs integers, YANG does not, which I-Ds do not always recognise although the Designated Experts can take care of that). Finally, when I first encountered this I-D I asked on NETCONF and NETMOD WG lists if anyone knew of it, where it was being worked on and got no reply - which surprised me. I note that you have not copied them although they were involved in making the interface type registry what it currently is when creating the YANG module for interface types. I wonder if other WG have an interest, CCAMP or TEAS perhaps. I agree that int-area is the WG best equipped to work on it and that it needs working on. Tom Petch ----- Original Message ----- From: "Suresh Krishnan" <[email protected]> To: "int-area" <[email protected]>; "6man" <[email protected]>; "dhcwg" <[email protected]>; "V6 Ops List" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2019 7:22 PM Hi all, I would like to AD sponsor the following draft that provides guidelines for definition of new interface types in the IANA IfType registries https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-thaler-iftype-reg-02 If you have any concerns either with the contents of the draft, or about me AD sponsoring it please let me know before 2019/06/26. Thanks Suresh NOTE: I have CCed: all the working groups that I thought could be potentially interested in this work. If you think I have missed out some WG(s) please let me know. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- > _______________________________________________ > Int-area mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area > _______________________________________________ Softwires mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/softwires
