Re: [netmod] WG Last Call: draft-ietf-netmod-revised-datastores-04 updates

[Andy Bierman <[e-mail]>]

On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 12:24 AM, Juergen Schoenwaelder <
[e-mail]> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 02:07:58PM -0700, Andy Bierman wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I strongly agree with Tom that the current draft is an update to RFC
> 7950.
> > I also strongly disagree with the decision to omit RFC 2119 in a
> standards
> > track document. IMO RFC 2119 terms need to be used in normative text,
> > especially when dealing with XPath and YANG compiler behavior.
> >
>
> RFC 8174:
>
>    o  These words can be used as defined here, but using them is not
>       required.  Specifically, normative text does not require the use
>       of these key words.  They are used for clarity and consistency
>       when that is what's wanted, but a lot of normative text does not
>       use them and is still normative.
>
>
So what?
Existing YANG specifications use RFC 2119 terms.
This draft uses those terms, just with lower-case.
Either way, the new YANG rules seem half-baked and not ready
for standardization.



> /js
>
>
Andy


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