Re: [netmod] YANG next

[Andy Bierman <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 10:28 AM Kent Watsen <[e-mail]> wrote:

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> So you want to work on YANG 1.2, but just the parts you want to change? ;-)
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> I am actually fine with not doing any changes to YANG 1.1 at all, except
> perhaps
> bug fixes. This doesn't necessarily mean closing the NETMOD WG, it would
> IMO be
> immensely useful to rewrite the language specification and remove NETCONF-
> and
> XML-specific part.
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> +1. There are plenty of ambiguities and NETCONF/XML pollution in the
> spec. Having the specifications in a DAG would be immensely useful :)
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>
> Agreed and I should've mentioned before that Martin said in Prague that
> he'd already started this effort, seeing it as a necessary pre-step before
> making other changes.  I'm unsure if the intention is to release this by
> itself as an RFC 7950 bis but, if looking for a minimal change, that might
> be it.  The next rung up would be to just add clarifications.  The next
> rung up from there would be to add only backwards-compatible changes
> (currently targeted by [1]).  The last rung being to also target NBC
> changes (there's no consensus to do this).
>
>
This WG sure likes to spend time refactoring documents.
Moving lots of text will create bugs and strong coupling, and only help the
standards purists.
It will be a lot of work for the WG and IESG to review such a massive
document split,
and in the end we have no improvement in YANG, just more RFCs to read.

Andy

[1] https://github.com/netmod-wg/yang-next/projects/2
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