Hi,

From: Italo Busi <italo.b...@huawei.com>
Date: Thursday, April 2, 2020 at 5:06 AM
To: "Reshad Rahman (rrahman)" <rrah...@cisco.com>, 'Andy Bierman' 
<a...@yumaworks.com>, "Joe Clarke (jclarke)" <jcla...@cisco.com>
Cc: NetMod WG <netmod@ietf.org>
Subject: RE: [netmod] versioning procedures (RFC vs. I-D)

Reshad,

My doubt and, if I understand well also Andy’s question, is about the fact that 
before publishing an RFC-bis with e.g., 1.1.0, we will have a set of 
Internet-Drafts updating the RFC with 1.0.0

What versions should be used in the YANG modules published in these 
Internet-Drafts?

Think about the following scenario: -00 version provide BC changes to the RFC 
module but the -01 version provide NBC changes to what has been added in the 
-00 module (thus the -01 version is BC with the RFC 1.0.0 module but NBC with 
the -00 version module)
<RR> So bis 00 would be 1.1.0 (BC with RFC module).
Bis 01 should be updated according to its relationship to the RFC module (bis 
00 doesn’t matter anymore), when RFC bis is published it won’t have the full 
history.

Hope I correctly understood your question.

Regards,
Reshad.

Thanks, Italo

Italo Busi
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Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
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From: Reshad Rahman (rrahman) [mailto:rrah...@cisco.com]
Sent: mercoledì 1 aprile 2020 20:13
To: Andy Bierman <a...@yumaworks.com>; Joe Clarke (jclarke) <jcla...@cisco.com>
Cc: NetMod WG <netmod@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: [netmod] versioning procedures (RFC vs. I-D)


From: netmod <netmod-boun...@ietf.org<mailto:netmod-boun...@ietf.org>> on 
behalf of 'Andy Bierman' <a...@yumaworks.com<mailto:a...@yumaworks.com>>
Date: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 at 2:07 PM
To: "Joe Clarke (jclarke)" <jcla...@cisco.com<mailto:jcla...@cisco.com>>
Cc: NetMod WG <netmod@ietf.org<mailto:netmod@ietf.org>>
Subject: Re: [netmod] versioning procedures (RFC vs. I-D)



On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 10:39 AM Joe Clarke (jclarke) 
<jcla...@cisco.com<mailto:jcla...@cisco.com>> wrote:


> On Apr 1, 2020, at 13:28, Andy Bierman 
> <a...@yumaworks.com<mailto:a...@yumaworks.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I just want to confirm that all the proposed documentation procedures
> using new extensions are limited in scope to published modules only,
> and not applied to unpublished modules (terms defined in RFC 8407).
>
> IMO it would be harmful to module usability to assign revision-labels or
> include revision-related extensions in unpublished modules (e.g., Internet 
> Drafts).
> Consider how cluttered and confusing the client-server modules would be
> if the 50+ NBC changes and versions were tracked through all the I-Ds.
>
> For IETF modules, the first usage of the revision-label
> should be in the initial RFC, and be set to 1.0.0.
>
> If the RFC is ever republished then one can expect to find an updated
> revision-label and possibly extensions tracking NBC changes.

The semver scheme allocates a major version of 0 for pre-releases where the 
BC/NBC rules do not apply.  I agree that a first official RFC release should be 
1.0.0 (from a semver revision-label standpoint).  From a design team 
standpoint, I know we mentioned the 0 versioning early on, but I don’t think we 
spent much time talking about modules under development overall.


IMO it is confusing to ignore the semver rules for the special 0.x.y releases.
There are many NBC changes made at this point which are treated as minor or 
patch changes.
The procedure is really broken once you consider a WG developing any RFC-bis 
module.
Now the major version is not 0 and all updates look like real releases.
<RR> I don’t think that’s needed. Initial module in RFC has 1.0.0, module in 
(released) RFC-bis can go to 1.0.1, 1.1.0 or 2.0.0 depending on the change.

Regards,
Reshad.

My take would align to yours that we wouldn’t clutter a module with development 
NBC tracking.

Joe

Andy

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