Re: [netmod] References to the "tags" typedef

[Mahesh Jethanandani <[e-mail]>]

> On Oct 3, 2019, at 2:37 AM, Rob Wilton (rwilton) <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Chris,
> 
> I know that this is late, but ...
> 
> The YANG packages draft (https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-rwilton-netmod-yang-packages-01, but an updated version will be posted soon), is currently using the module-tags typedef to allow a package definition to contain a list of tags.
> 
> E.g. 
> module: ietf-yang-package
>       +--ro yang-package
>          +--ro name                      yang:yang-identifier
>          +--ro version                   yang-sem-ver
>          +--ro revision-date?            yanglib:revision-identifier
>          +--ro location*                 inet:uri
>          +--ro description?              string
>          +--ro reference?                string
>          +--ro previous-version?         yang-sem-ver
>          +--ro tag*                      tags:tag
>          +--ro referentially-complete?   Boolean
>          ...
> 
> This package definition goes into an instance data document, for which the schema should just be ietf-yang-package, but by it importing ietf-module-tags.yang, it effectively also pulls in the "container module-tags" into the schema for the package definition, that I don't think should be there.
> 
> If we keep package tags, then I think that there are two ways to fix this:
> 
> (1) Split ietf-module-tags into an ietf-module-tags-types.yang and a ietf-module-tags.yang.  But it would be very late to do this, and the packages draft isn't even a workgroup document at this stage.

I know it is late. But what will it take to split the tags-types module from the tags module?

> 
> (2) Have the package draft define its own "package tag" typedef, and not have an import reference on module-tags at all.  Probably if we do keep package tags, then we should also consider a mechanism by which they can be updated on a device equivalently to module tags.
> 
> I'm currently thinking that the second choice might be a better approach at this time, but wanted to check whether you or the WG had an opinion.
> 
> Thanks,
> Rob
> 
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: netmod <[e-mail]> On Behalf Of Christian Hopps
>> Sent: 25 September 2019 17:19
>> To: [e-mail]
>> Subject: Re: [netmod] I-D Action: draft-ietf-netmod-module-tags-09.txt
>> 
>> This adds the deprecated non-NMDA state module.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Chris.
>> 
>>> On Sep 25, 2019, at 12:15 PM, [e-mail] wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
>> directories.
>>> This draft is a work item of the Network Modeling WG of the IETF.
>>> 
>>>       Title           : YANG Module Tags
>>>       Authors         : Christian Hopps
>>>                         Lou Berger
>>>                         Dean Bogdanovic
>>> 	Filename        : draft-ietf-netmod-module-tags-09.txt
>>> 	Pages           : 18
>>> 	Date            : 2019-09-25
>>> 
>>> Abstract:
>>>  This document provides for the association of tags with YANG modules.
>>>  The expectation is for such tags to be used to help classify and
>>>  organize modules.  A method for defining, reading and writing a
>>>  modules tags is provided.  Tags may be registered and assigned during
>>>  module definition; assigned by implementations; or dynamically
>>>  defined and set by users.  This document also provides guidance to
>>>  future model writers; as such, this document updates RFC8407.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
>>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-netmod-module-tags/
>>> 
>>> There are also htmlized versions available at:
>>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-netmod-module-tags-09
>>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-netmod-module-tags-09
>>> 
>>> A diff from the previous version is available at:
>>> https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-netmod-module-tags-09
>>> 
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