Re: [netmod] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC7950 (5879)

[Ladislav Lhotka <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, 2019-10-22 at 17:02 +0200, Martin Bjorklund wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The problem is that it is not clear that we can use this new
> definition with the rest of the text in the RFC that uses this term.
> For example, section 7.1.5 talks about "the imported module's schema
> tree", and this doesn't really work if the schema tree is not tied to
> a module.

On the other hand, sec. 9.9 says (and that's how I stumbled upon this):

   The "path" substatement (Section 9.9.2) is used to identify the
   referred leaf or leaf-list node in the schema tree.

With the current definition of schema tree, it would mean that the referred leaf
or leaf-list node must be in the same module, which is of course a nonsense.

Lada

> 
> Also the proposed definition is recursive since it is defined in
> terms of "schema node", and a "schema node" is already defined as "a
> node in the schema tree".
> 
> So it probably makes sense to look at this definition (and the text
> and other definitions) if we do a document update, but as it is
> currently written I think it should be rejected.
> 
> 
> /martin
> 
> 
> 
> RFC Errata System <[e-mail]> wrote:
> > The following errata report has been submitted for RFC7950,
> > "The YANG 1.1 Data Modeling Language".
> > 
> > --------------------------------------
> > You may review the report below and at:
> > https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid5879
> > 
> > --------------------------------------
> > Type: Technical
> > Reported by: Ladislav Lhotka <[e-mail]>
> > 
> > Section: 3
> > 
> > Original Text
> > -------------
> > o  schema tree: The definition hierarchy specified within a module.
> > 
> > 
> > Corrected Text
> > --------------
> > o  schema tree: The hierarchy of schema nodes defined in the set of all
> modules 
> >    implemented by a server, as specified in the YANG library data [RFC7895].
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Notes
> > -----
> > The original definition of the term has two problems:
> > 
> > 1. Schema tree is not limited to a single module. Some YANG constructs, such
> as augment and leafref type, may refer to a schema node that is defined in
> another module.
> > 
> > 2. Apart from schema nodes, YANG modules contain definitions that do not
> contribute to the schema tree: groupings, typedefs, identities etc.
> > 
> > Instructions:
> > -------------
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> > 
> > --------------------------------------
> > RFC7950 (draft-ietf-netmod-rfc6020bis-14)
> > --------------------------------------
> > Title               : The YANG 1.1 Data Modeling Language
> > Publication Date    : August 2016
> > Author(s)           : M. Bjorklund, Ed.
> > Category            : PROPOSED STANDARD
> > Source              : Network Modeling
> > Area                : Operations and Management
> > Stream              : IETF
> > Verifying Party     : IESG
> > 
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Ladislav Lhotka
Head, CZ.NIC Labs
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