Re: [netmod] type equivalence

["Rob Wilton (rwilton)" <[e-mail]>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <[e-mail]>
> Sent: 25 February 2021 18:01
> To: Rob Wilton (rwilton) <[e-mail]>
> Cc: [e-mail]
> Subject: Re: [netmod] type equivalence
> 
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 05:10:21PM +0000, Rob Wilton (rwilton) wrote:
> >
> > Since the YANG module versioning draft clarifies the BC/NBC rules,
> perhaps we could add text to clarify this in that draft?
> >
> > I.e., perhaps something for section 3.1.3 of
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-netmod-yang-module-versioning/
> >
> 
> I rather have this fixed (or clarified) in RC 7950, as far as I
> understand I can choose to ignore the versioning extensions and
> simply use YANG 1.1, no?
[RW] 

As a contributor:
I presume so.

As an AD:
Whether this can be done as a verified errata isn't so clear, but would obviously depend on the proposed text.


> 
> That said, draft-ietf-netmod-yang-module-versioning-02.txt says
> in 3.1.2.:
> 
>    o  Modifying the type of a leaf or leaf-list is NBC
> 
> This seems to be way more restrictive than the existing YANG 1.1 rules
> we have today. Perhaps that is what the versioning people want, but
> then we better keep the YANG 1.1 rules and the YANG + versioning rules
> separate.
[RW] 

As a contributor:
That is just new text recently added for the config false nodes.  I think that it just needs some worth smithing, possibly along with the rest of that section.

Thanks,
Rob


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