Re: [netmod] 6087bis namespace recommendations

Ladislav Lhotka <lhotka@nic.cz> Fri, 15 January 2016 11:55 UTC

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Subject: Re: [netmod] 6087bis namespace recommendations
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> On 15 Jan 2016, at 12:49, Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> wrote:
> 
> 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 modules that are unpublished.

I am not proposing it. The problem I'd like to get solved is proper module revisioning already at the I-D stage so that implementations be able to distinguish one revision from another. Appending DRAFT to the namespace URI doesn't help anything.

Lada 

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