Re: [netmod] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC6020 (5272)

[Kent Watsen <[e-mail]>]

From RFC 7950, Section 7.20.2, first sentence:

   The "if-feature" statement makes its parent statement conditional.

Thus:

   feature aaa {
     if-feature bbb;
     ...
   }

means that feature "aaa" depends on feature "bbb".
The current text is correct.

Kent




The following errata report has been submitted for RFC6020,
"YANG - A Data Modeling Language for the Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF)".

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Type: Technical
Reported by: Bob Harold <[e-mail]>

Section: 7.18.1

Original Text
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   In order for a device to implement a feature that is dependent on any
   other features (i.e., the feature has one or more "if-feature" sub-
   statements), the device MUST also implement all the dependant
   features.

Corrected Text
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   In order for a device to implement a feature that is dependent on any
   other features (i.e. the feature is a sub-statement of another 
   "if-feature" statement), the device MUST also implement all the 
   dependent features.

Notes
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The direction of the dependency is stated backwards.
Consider for example:

if-feature aaa;
    statements ...;
    if-feature bbb;

This should allow feature aaa to exist without feature bbb.
bbb should depend on aaa, but aaa should not depend on bbb

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RFC6020 (draft-ietf-netmod-yang-13)
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Title               : YANG - A Data Modeling Language for the Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF)
Publication Date    : October 2010
Author(s)           : M. Bjorklund, Ed.
Category            : PROPOSED STANDARD
Source              : Network Modeling
Area                : Operations and Management
Stream              : IETF
Verifying Party     : IESG