Re: [I2nsf] [yang-doctors] Need YANG Doctor reviewing the YANG module of draft-ietf-i2nsf-sdn-ipsec-flow-protection which I2NSF is about to call WGLC

[Juergen Schoenwaelder <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 07:04:30AM -0400, Paul Wouters wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Apr 2019, Ladislav Lhotka wrote:
> 
> > Not necessarily. If you look, for example, at RFC 7224, it is IANA's
> > responsibility to keep the registry in sync with the YANG module. No further
> > effort is required from the WG that prepared the initial revision of the module.
> 
> What is "the YANG module" ?
> 
> I don't think IANA has any responsibility other than RFCs directing them
> to update IANA registries. How do you imagine any updates to happen, and
> how would IANA "sync" this automatically?
>

There are IANA maintained YANG modules (and before we had YANG there
were IANA maintained MIB modules). Numbers maintained in registries
sometimes need to be in machine readable formats and then IANA
documents procedures to make updates both in their internal registry
and in an IANA maintained YANG module.

/js

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