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 11:49 AM, Eric Rescorla <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Eric Rescorla has entered the following ballot position for
> draft-ietf-netmod-rfc6087bis-18: No Objection
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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



>    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.




>    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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>    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


>    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

Andy