Re: [netmod] 6087bis namespace recommendations

Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> Fri, 15 January 2016 11:49 UTC

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From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de>
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Subject: Re: [netmod] 6087bis namespace recommendations
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On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 12:39:16PM +0100, Ladislav Lhotka wrote:
> 
> Does this solve any practical problem? Modules are imported based on
> the module name and revision. On the other hand, it does create new problems:
> namespace URIs and their mappings to prefixes may be spread in many
> places in the code, and these would have to be manually edited after an
> I-D -> RFC transition.
> 
> It would IMO be much better to use revision numbers rather than dates,
> and adopt a convention, e.g., that modules in the I-D stage have
> revisions 0.x that get bumped with each new revision of the I-D.
>

Lada, this is not how our current YANG 1.0 versioning and revision
rules work and we are not going to change them in YANG 1.1 either.
The rules we have do make a distinction between published modules and
modules that are unpublished.

/js

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