Re: [netmod] Erratum 5514 on NMDA [RFC 8342]

[Martin Björklund <[e-mail]>]

"Rob Wilton \(rwilton\)" <rwilton=[e-mail]> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> There is one open erratum on NMDA from 2018 that I would like to
> process.
> 
> The erratum is here: https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid5514
> 
> There has been quite a lot of discussion on this erratum previously on
> the NETMOD alias.  The last email in the thread was
> https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/netmod/LHJZmf5gtESX6Nobwst0OwXbGG4/
> 
> >From my reading of the discussion, I don't think that there is clear
> >WG consensus between the two competing concerns:
> (1) The origin for any top-level configuration data nodes must be
> specified (section 7, YANG annotation definition).
> (2) The origin applies to all configuration nodes except non-presence
> containers (section 5.3.4).
> 
> Hence my proposal is to mark this as "Hold for Document Update" with
> Kent's proposed resolution of changing the description in the YANG
> model.
> 
> OLD:
>     The origin for any top-level configuration data nodes must be
>     specified.
> 
> NEW:
>     The origin for any top-level configuration data nodes, except
>     non-presence containers, must be specified.
> 
> For reference, this will mean that the extension [NEW] is defined as:
> 
>      md:annotation origin {
>        type origin-ref;
>        description
>          "The 'origin' annotation can be present on any configuration
>           data node in the operational state datastore.  It specifies
>           from where the node originated.  If not specified for a given
>           configuration data node, then the origin is the same as the
>           origin of its parent node in the data tree.  The origin for
>           any top-level configuration data nodes, except non-presence
>           containers,  must be specified.";
>      }
> 
> Please can you let me know if you support or object to this
> resolution.  I'll leave it a week to see if there is consensus before
> processing the erratum.

I think this is ok.


/martin