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

[Christian Hopps <[e-mail]>]

> On Oct 3, 2019, at 2:34 PM, Mahesh Jethanandani <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> 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?

I do not understand why this is important at all. What does "pulls in" exactly mean?

Thanks,
Chris.

> 
>> 
>> (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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