[art] Re: [Uri-review] Re: Alternative representation of URIs in YANG

Mahesh Jethanandani <mjethanandani@gmail.com> Fri, 23 January 2026 22:57 UTC

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Hi Henry,

Can you provide a specific example of how the current definition of 'ietf-uri’ in YANG does not meet the requirements of configuring HTTP?

Thanks.

> On Jan 23, 2026, at 4:22 AM, Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> Mahesh Jethanandani writes:
> 
>> How about we go with option 2 that limits the applicability of the definition to the following:
>> 
>> The 'ietf-url' module defines a YANG 'grouping' for a URL described as a
>> constrained subset of the URI defined in <relref section="3" target="RFC3986"/>.
> 
> Just changing the 'i' to a 'u' doesn't change the fact that it's no
> longer a UR[IL] if it's restricted to 'HTTP', so IMHO it's still
> misleading.
> 
> ht


Mahesh Jethanandani
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