Re: [netmod] Eric Rescorla's No Objection on draft-ietf-netmod-rfc6087bis-18: (with COMMENT)

[Andy Bierman <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 1:56 PM, Eric Rescorla <[e-mail]> wrote:

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> On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 1:44 PM, Andy Bierman <[e-mail]> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 11:49 AM, Eric Rescorla <[e-mail]> wrote:
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>>> Eric Rescorla has entered the following ballot position for
>>> draft-ietf-netmod-rfc6087bis-18: No Objection
>>>
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>>> COMMENT:
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>>> draft-ietf-netmod-rfc6087bis.txt:500
>>>    normative, if the module itself is considered normative, and not an
>>>    example module or example YANG fragment.  The use of keywords defined
>>>    in [RFC2119] apply to YANG description statements in normative
>>> I think you probably want to rewrite this as:
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>>> "Note that if the module itself is considered normative and not an
>>> example
>>> module or example YANG fragment, then all YANG statements..."
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>>>
>> OK
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>>>    o  Prefixes are never allowed for built in data types and YANG
>>>       keywords.
>>> I'm not sure I understand what this means. Is the idea that I can't use
>>> "example-import" somewhere?
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>> The external keyword "example:import" is not the same as the YANG keyword
>> "import"
>> YANG keywords are not allowed to have prefixes.
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>>>    character MAY be used if the identifier represents a well-known value
>>>    that uses these characters.
>>> Is this text saying that only characters in these two subsets are
>>> allowed and
>>> therefore, for instance "." is forbidden
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>> This text is suggesting the characters that SHOULD be used.
>> The dot and dash chars are not included. The text specifies which
>> characters are included.
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> I'm sorry, I am still confused. Here's the original text:
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>    Identifiers SHOULD follow a consistent naming pattern throughout the
>    module.  Only lower-case letters, numbers, and dashes SHOULD be used
>    in identifier names.  Upper-case characters and the underscore
>    character MAY be used if the identifier represents a well-known value
>    that uses these characters.
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> There are other characters that are not in either of these sets. Are you
> saying
> that they can't be used under any conditions?
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I will add the period charater to the list



> -Ekr
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Andy


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>>>    It is RECOMMENDED that only valid YANG modules be included in
>>>    documents, whether or not they are published yet.  This allows:
>>> For clarify, I assume you mean "the modules are published yet"
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>> OK
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>>>    The NETCONF Access Control Model (NACM) [I-D.ietf-netconf-rfc6536bis]
>>>    does not support parameter access control for RPC operations.  The
>>>    user is given permission (or not) to invoke the RPC operation with
>>> This might be slightly clearer if you said "parameter-based access
>>> control"
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>> OK
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>> Andy
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