Re: [core] [core-wg/yang-cbor] Describe publication process (addressing Rob Wilton's DISCUSS) (PR #159)

[Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]>]

> On 2023-10-24, at 16:16, Michael Richardson <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> Signed PGP part
> 
> In a github pull request, already merged, at:
> https://github.com/core-wg/yang-cbor/pull/159#discussion_r1369223213
> 
> cabo <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>> +RFCs that need SIDs assigned to their new modules for use in the text
>> +of the document, e.g., for examples, need to alert the RFC editor in
>> +the draft text that this is the case.
> 
>> I'm not sure the SIDTBDXX approach works too well, but it clearly is
>> one way of alerting the RFC editor.
>> In the CBOR context, we like the examples to actually parse, and
>> SIDTBDXX often won't.
> 
> Yes, this is the struggle.  We need real allocations to do the CBOR, and we
> can't really expect the RPC to renegerate that, so we need a step where the
> authors do that work after IANA allocation, but before publication.
> I think that if there isn't an early allocation, that the authors wind up
> using experimental values, and then putting SIDTBDXX in the comment.

I would expect drafts like the constrained voucher draft to go for early allocation and type-1 processing, which should solve this problem neatly.

Grüße, Carsten