All, RFC 6020bis says “The ABNF grammar [RFC5234] [RFC7405] defines the canonical order. To improve module readability, it is RECOMMENDED that clauses be entered in this order.”
The ABNF places linkage-stmts (import, include) before meta-stmts (organization, contact, description, reference) but if there are a lot of linkage statements (which will be the case in the main module if there are a large number of submodules… as there are for some of the modules that BBF is defining) this means that the description can be a fair way down the module. Would there be any support for regarding placement of the meta statements before the linkage statements as not being a violation of canonical order? Note (this might be inadvertent) that the ABNF actually defines “meta-stmts” before “linkage-stmts”. Thanks, William _______________________________________________ netmod mailing list netmod@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/netmod
