Protocol Action: 'Defining and Using Metadata with YANG' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-netmod-yang-metadata-07.txt)

The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org> Mon, 21 March 2016 21:33 UTC

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Subject: Protocol Action: 'Defining and Using Metadata with YANG' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-netmod-yang-metadata-07.txt)
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The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'Defining and Using Metadata with YANG'
(draft-ietf-netmod-yang-metadata-07.txt) as Proposed Standard

This document is the product of the NETCONF Data Modeling Language
Working Group.

The IESG contact persons are Benoit Claise and Joel Jaeggli.

A URL of this Internet Draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-netmod-yang-metadata/

Technical Summary

This document defines a YANG extension statement that allows for
defining metadata annotations in YANG modules. The document also
specifies XML and JSON encoding of annotations and other rules for
annotating instances of YANG data nodes.

Working Group Summary

There has been some controversy regarding the fact that metadata
annotations are defined using a YANG extension, which means that they
are by definition optional to implement. On the other hand, introducing
a new built-in YANG statement was considered a big change that's not
suited for inclusion in the minor (1.1) revision of YANG.

Document Quality

In the past, vendors of management software and networking devices
introduced a number of proprietary metadata annotations for various
purposes. This document allows for including information about
annotations in YANG data models so that standard annotations can be
defined in an interoperable way, and in both supported encodings (XML
and JSON).

The RESTCONF protocol document [draft-ietf-netconf-restconf] has a
normative reference to this document for the encoding of metadata.
Also, the widely used tool `pyang` has already been updated to support
this draft.

Personnel

The Shepherd is Kent Watsen. The AD is Benoit Claise If the document requires IANA
experts(s), insert 'The IANA Expert(s) for the registries
in this document are Tim Bray, Martin Thomson (http://www.iana.org/assignments/xml-registry/xml-registry.xhtml)

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