Re: [Teas] Last Call: <draft-ietf-teas-yang-te-types-09.txt> (Traffic Engineering Common YANG Types) to Proposed Standard

[tom petch <[e-mail]>]

And now it would appear  we have quadruplicate definitions with the
advent of
draft-ietf-ccamp-layer1-types
which has a comprehensive, and different, set of ODU (upper case) types.

Tom Petch

----- Original Message -----
From: "t.petch" <[e-mail]>
Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2019 4:43 PM


> Tarek
>
> You asked about my reference to definitions in triplicate which my
later
> response did not expand on.
>
> The three I was counting were this I-D, exisiting IANA registries
(some
> of
> which are identical to this I-D, some not) and the LSR I-D
> draft-ietf-isis-yang-isis-cfg
> which contains definitions of switching capability which I see
> overlapping a part of this I-D.  I thought I saw an e-mail from
> Stephane,
> around Christmas, saying he would discuss this with other chairs but
> cannot now find it so perhaps the wish was father to the thought.
>
> The LSR I-D is now in AD review on the LSR list and so may get more
> attention.
>
> Tom Petch
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tarek Saad" <[e-mail]>
> To: "tom petch" <[e-mail]>; <[e-mail]>; "Igor
> Bryskin" <[e-mail]>
> Cc: <[e-mail]>; <[e-mail]>;
> <[e-mail]>; <[e-mail]>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2019 10:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [Teas] Last Call: <draft-ietf-teas-yang-te-types-09.txt>
> (Traffic Engineering Common YANG Types) to Proposed Standard
>
>
> > Hi Tom,
> >
> > Thanks for sharing your feedback.
> > I'm attaching Igor's response on this topic -- which I share his
same
> opinion.
> > Please see more comments inline from me [TS]..
> >
> > On 5/15/19, 7:16 AM, "Teas on behalf of tom petch"
> <[e-mail] on behalf of [e-mail]> wrote:
> >
> >     The approach taken by this I-D worries me.
> >
> >     It provides YANG identities for a wide range of values used in
TE,
> such
> >     as encoding types and switching capabilities; so far, so good.
> > [TS]: As mentioned in abstract, the module is not strictly
identities.
> It is a collection of re-usable YANG groupings, types and identities.
> >
> >     These definitions were needed, and were in a large part created
by
> >     RFC3471, in 2003.  When the management of GMPLS was specified,
in
> MIB
> >     modules, these definitions were put under IANA control and they
> remain
> >     there to this day.  They were updated by e.g. RFC8330 (February
> 2018)
> >     and RFC8363 (May 2018) so these IANA registries are not some
dusty
> old
> >     relic but a current, living specification.
> >
> >     These YANG definitions have much in common with the IANA SMI
> registries
> >     but they are not the same.  A comparison of e.g. switching
> capabilities
> >     suggests that this YANG module is out-of-date compared with the
> IANA SMI
> >     registry (as with RFC8330, RFC8363) and omits several values for
> no
> >     stated reason ( the deprecated 2,3,4, 40 PBB-TE, 151 WSON-LSC).
> > [TS]: it was not the intention to be exhaustive in covering all IANA
> defined entities. However, the objective was to model enough that
would
> make TE feature (modelled in other modules) usable and to leverage the
> power of YANG augmentation for any extensions that may not be covered
in
> a base model. Specifically, the authors favored the use of YANG
> identities over enums to allow for the extensibility of augmentation.
> >
> >     The approach taken by other WG has been to take a IANA registry
> and
> >     provide a parallel YANG module under common IANA control as has
> been
> >     done for e.g. interfaces with both MIB module and YANG module
> being
> >     updated in parallel as appropriate.
> >
> >     Here something seems to have gone wrong.  We have a parallel set
> of
> >     definitions not acknowledging the existing ones and being
> out-of-date
> >     compared with the existing ones.
> >
> >     Furthermore, some of these definitions are duplicated in the
work
> of the
> >     LSR WG giving us (at least) three definitions.
> > [TS]: it would help to point to the duplication or thread that this
> was discussed in. However, we believe that this document covers TE
data
> and hence LSR module(s) would need to eliminate duplication of any TE
> data (if any).. LSR module can always import TE types to use the TE
> definitions.
> >
> >     I raised this issue before Christmas 2018 and was told that the
> chairs
> >     of TEAS and LSR would get together and get back to me.  Nothing
> appears
> >     to have changed.
> >
> >     In passing, IANA has separate SMI registries for e.g.LSP
encoding,
> >     Switching Types and so on, which seems a sound engineering
> approach,
> >     allowing more flexible evolution compared to the 60-page
monolith
> of
> >     this single YANG module.
> > [TS]: In this effort, we've followed similar approach to RFC8294,
> RFC6021. Etc.. Do you see the same concerns there too?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Tarek
> >
> >     ..Tom Petch
> >
> >     ----- Original Message -----
> >     From: "The IESG" <[e-mail]>
> >     Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2019 9:47 PM
> >
> >     > The IESG has received a request from the Traffic Engineering
> >     Architecture and
> >     > Signaling WG (teas) to consider the following document: -
> 'Traffic
> >     > Engineering Common YANG Types'
> >     >   <draft-ietf-teas-yang-te-types-09.txt> as Proposed Standard
> >     >
> >     > The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and
> solicits
> >     final
> >     > comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to
the
> >     > [e-mail] mailing lists by 2019-05-16. Exceptionally,
> comments may
> >     be
> >     > sent to [e-mail] instead. In either case, please retain
the
> >     beginning of
> >     > the Subject line to allow automated sorting.
> >     >
> >     > Abstract
> >     >
> >     >
> >     >    This document defines a collection of common data types and
> >     groupings
> >     >    in YANG data modeling language.  These derived common types
> and
> >     >    groupings are intended to be imported by modules that model
> Traffic
> >     >    Engineering (TE) configuration and state capabilities.
> >     >
> >     >
> >     >
> >     >
> >     > The file can be obtained via
> >     >
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-teas-yang-te-types/
> >     >
> >     > IESG discussion can be tracked via
> >     >
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-teas-yang-te-types/ballot/
> >     >
> >     >
> >     > No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
> >     >
> >     >
> >     >
> >     >
> >
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