We do have a working group that is chartered to deal with
general/common issues with YANG -- NetMod. I suggest that this be
hashed out there. -- Of course the ADs need to concur...
Lou
NetMod Co-chair
On 11/18/2019 8:49 AM, Tim Wicinski
wrote:
IANA has been doing it for more than five years for a
couple of YANG modules
(six by now), and I am not aware of any troubles so far.
But that's work put onto the IANA pile, and some I* organization
may want to understand the
commitment.
On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 10:08
PM Ladislav Lhotka < lhotka@xxxxxx> wrote:
On
Mon, 2019-11-18 at 21:26 +0800, Michael Richardson wrote:
> Paul Wouters <paul@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> >>> During a plenary at the last or second
last IETF, I raised an issue
> >>> about people stuffing incomplete and
obsolete/deprecated partial IANA
> >>> registiries in yang drafts/RFCs. The
IESG confirmed this as a problem
> >>> to me and one of the IESG members said
they were aware and would get
> >>> back on this.
> >>>
> >>> I have not heard anything. The issue is
still a problem. Originally,
> >>> this came up in i2nsf/ipsecme, and has
now resurfaced for me in
> >>> dnsop.
>
> >> The IESG talked about this issue during the
last IETF meeting. See
> >> attached.
> >>
> >> The outcome of this discussion was that
there is no single "right
> >> answer" and individual ADs should intervene
on specific instances as
> >> appropriate.
>
> > Thanks for the answer. Unfortunately, it is not
much of guidance and
> > does not really address the issue I raised,
namely that we are putting
> > snapshots of IANA registries in RFC documents.
One of your three Design
> > Patterns still does this.
>
> I also am unhappy with this situation.
>
> As far as I can tell it means that IANA will be
maintaining YANG modules.
> I don't understand how this is going to work for real
products.
IANA has been doing it for more than five years for a couple
of YANG modules
(six by now), and I am not aware of any troubles so far.
Lada
>
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