Re: [netmod] References Re: RFC 6991

[Jürgen Schönwälder <[e-mail]>]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 04:34:41PM +0000, tom petch wrote:
> 
> <tp>
> The definition of 'identifier' in RFC7950 is not the same as the definition of 'identifier' in RFC6020 and rfc7991-bis quotes the latter and not the former.  I am not clear what the best way forward is.
>

It helps me and likely also others if we can nail things down and be
explicit. Are you talking about:

RFC 6020:

   ;; An identifier MUST NOT start with (('X'|'x') ('M'|'m') ('L'|'l'))
   identifier          = (ALPHA / "_")
                         *(ALPHA / DIGIT / "_" / "-" / ".")

RFC 7991:

   identifier          = (ALPHA / "_")
                         *(ALPHA / DIGIT / "_" / "-" / ".")

The yang-identifier defined in draft-ietf-netmod-rfc6991-bis-09.txt
did not change and it still references RFC 6020. What exactly is your
concern or proposal? Do you propose to change the definition of
yang-identifier to reference RFC 7950 and to drop the second pattern
(which would be an allowed change according to YANG update rules)? Or
do you propose to add a new definition of a yang-identifier-1.1?

/js

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