On Mon, Apr 14, 2025 at 5:35 PM Kent Watsen <[email protected]> wrote:

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>
> > On Apr 11, 2025, at 11:18 AM, Andy Bierman <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > This 'bad' practice (foo-grouping) has been used in RFCs as recently as
> RFC 9640.
>
> No one seemed to care in the years the WG was working on these documents.
>
> Those documents are just recently published.  How about filing a Technical
> Erratum to convert them all?  The data model would be unaffected...
>
>
I do not support changing this RFC.
I was pointing out that nobody objected to this practice during the review
process.
The extra "-grouping" text does not bother me.

Changing the name would break every "uses" that already exists, so not a
good idea.



>
> > In general, avoiding redundancy is a good idea, but naming conventions
> for different
> > types of identifiers are quite common.
>
> Perhaps use "-g" instead of "-grouping"?
>
> The goal for the YANG to be readable.  I created this convention in order
> to make it more readable, because otherwise it became confusing when "foo"
> could be a a substring found in many identifiers (module names, groupings,
> containers, etc.).  I had issues trying to navigate the modules before,
> which resolved after introducing the typing convention.
>
> I personally think there is bike-shedding going on here, and the 8407bis
> guidance is overreaching.  Strange how no one asked me why I did this, to
> seek for a solution that addresses the issue I ran into.
>
>
I agree that SHOULD NOT is too much here.
Naming conventions and styles are subjective.

The 'type' suffix is more common than 'grouping'.
That is out now too?



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> Kent // contributor
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>
Andy
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