[netmod] 6087bis namespace recommendations

[Martin Bjorklund <[e-mail]>]

Hi,

Currently, 6087bis says that standards-track, published and
unpublished modules SHOULD use the URN prefix
"urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:".

There are two issues with this:

  1.  We already publish experimental modules w/ this prefix.
      (ietf-netconf-time and ietf-complex-types).

      So 6087bis should remove "standards track" from this
      recommendation.

  2.  There was some discussion about recommending a different URN
      prefix for unpublished modules (i.e., modules in Internet
      Drafts).

      Should 6087bis recommend some special urn prefix for drafts,
      with a note to the RFC editor to change the namespace once it
      has been registered with IANA?

And another issue.  6087bis also has this:

OLD: 

  The following examples are for non-Standards-Track modules.
  The domain "example.com" SHOULD be used in all namespace URIs
  for example modules.

      http://example.com/ns/example-interfaces

      http://example.com/ns/example-system


First of all, the sentence about non-Standards-Track modules is
confusing.  Second, since the publication of RFC 6087, RFC 6963 has
been published, which defines a URN for examples.  I suggest we update
6087bis like this:

NEW:

  Example modules in all types of documents SHOULD use a namespace
  with either the example URN [RFC 6963] or the domain "example.com".
  For example:

      urn:example:interfaces

      http://example.com/ns/example-system
 


/martin