Re: [Netconf] Draft Charter Proposal for NETCONF WG

[Kent Watsen <[e-mail]>]

> Kent
>
> 7 is a monster because of the XML encoding rules, not because of the
> revised datastore concepts.  And datastores, as you say, are more
> important - revising the XML encoding rules is cosmetic, not needed
> technically and, as I said, only make sense when the NETMOD WG has done
> its bit; and the revised charter being discussed on the NETMOD list
> makes no mention of this work.
>
> So scrap NETCONF XML encoding rules.
>
> Tom Petch


Hi Tom,

Such changes fall under the "maintaining" clauses in the NETMOD charter:

  a) Maintaining the data modeling language YANG.  This effort entails
     periodically updating the specification to address new requirements
     as they arise.

  d) Maintaining encodings for YANG modeled data.  This effort entails
     updating encodings already defined by the NETMOD working group 
     (XML and JSON) to accommodate changes to the YANG specification,
     and defining new encodings that are needed, and yet do not fall
     under the charter of any other active IETF working group.

Our charter does not call out every little thing so we don't have to
update it all the time.  Note, the Milestones do need to be updated
frequently, but our WG can do that without IESG approval.

Kent