Re: [core] progressing ietf-core-yang-cbor and ietf-core-sid

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Sun, 12 January 2020 00:30 UTC

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Subject: Re: [core] progressing ietf-core-yang-cbor and ietf-core-sid
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Ivaylo Petrov <ivaylo@ackl.io> wrote:
    >> I think that the major issue is that I am still not convinced that
    >> IANA is prepared to operate pyang itself.  Conversations at IETF105
    >> and IETF106 did not convince me that they (IANA) completely understood
    >> what they are being asked to do.  For instance, I'm not convinced that
    >> there is a support process for IANA to get bugs fixed in the sid.py
    >> module.
    >>
    >> (I would be pleased to be convinced otherwise)

    > I remember that during the discussion with IANA we considered that the
    > authors and the expert will be responsible for the running of the pyang
    > tool and IANA will only take the .sid file and store it. The .sid files
    > will be provided to IANA when there is a request to register the .sid
    > file - however that is done. Do you see an error in our reasoning other
    > that the fact that we might be burdening the authors too much?  Does
    > this seem acceptable to you?

okay, so the expert reviewer needs to be able to run pyang --generate-sid-file, etc.
I don't know if IANA has a process to accept files online, but I guess
attachments to tickets will work.

    >> (3) a document could ask for an early SID allocation, referencing a
    >> YANG module which is in another WG, or worse, not yet adopted, and
    >> therefore not subject to Early Adoption rules!  This may be a problem
    >> we do not to fix (Just get the document adopted), but I think that we
    >> should be clear about this.
    >>
    >>
    >> My recommendation is that all YANG modules, upon being *ADOPTED* by a
    >> WG, have a SID allocation done.  Yes, the document will get revised,
    >> but the SID system is designed to deal with this.

    > Yes, that issue does not seem obvious. Currently I don't see a blocking
    > issue with allocating SIDs for all YANG modules once a draft is
    > adopted, so maybe this is truly our best way to avoid problems.

okay, if we are in agreement, then I think that we need text in the SID
document's IANA Considerations that says this.

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