[netmod] I-D Action: draft-ietf-netmod-rfc6991-bis-09.txt

2022-01-04 Thread internet-drafts
A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the Network Modeling WG of the IETF. Title : Common YANG Data Types Author : Juergen Schoenwaelder Filename: draft-ietf-netmod-rfc6991-b

Re: [netmod] Camel Case versus hyphenation

2022-01-04 Thread Carsten Bormann
On 2022-01-04, at 18:10, tom petch wrote: > > > The OED defined hyphenation as meaning 'contains a hyphen' so I shall stay > with that pro tem. Which is a nice example for how general purpose dictionaries don’t always capture the full meaning of technical terms very well. (Wikipedia is better

Re: [netmod] Camel Case versus hyphenation

2022-01-04 Thread tom petch
From: netmod on behalf of Carsten Bormann Sent: 04 January 2022 15:33 On 2022-01-04, at 12:26, Jürgen Schönwälder wrote: > > tells a human operator over the phone Indeed, a consistent convention wins. The question was whether the consistency should be on the YANG side or on the side of eac

Re: [netmod] Camel Case versus hyphenation

2022-01-04 Thread Carsten Bormann
On 2022-01-04, at 12:26, Jürgen Schönwälder wrote: > > tells a human operator over the phone Indeed, a consistent convention wins. The question was whether the consistency should be on the YANG side or on the side of each specific application modeled in YANG, and I think operationally we hav

Re: [netmod] Camel Case versus hyphenation

2022-01-04 Thread Christian Hopps
> On Jan 4, 2022, at 6:26 AM, Jürgen Schönwälder > wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 11:01:16AM +, tom petch wrote: >> >> Well, consistency with what? For me that is the protocol RFC that is the >> starting point and having YANG module authors going off in another >> direction, albeit

Re: [netmod] Camel Case versus hyphenation

2022-01-04 Thread Jürgen Schönwälder
On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 11:01:16AM +, tom petch wrote: > > Well, consistency with what? For me that is the protocol RFC that is the > starting point and having YANG module authors going off in another direction, > albeit consistently, is likely to be a source of confusion. > If someone tell

Re: [netmod] Camel Case versus hyphenation

2022-01-04 Thread tom petch
From: Jürgen Schönwälder Sent: 01 January 2022 19:25 On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 12:42:46PM +, tom petch wrote: > A number of protocols name protocol values using camel case, protocols such > as TCP, BGP and PCEP (RFC5440). YANG does not like camel case and so some > YANG module authors put hy

Re: [netmod] Camel Case versus hyphenation

2022-01-04 Thread tom petch
From: Kent Watsen Sent: 01 January 2022 13:30 The fist couple paragraphs here apply: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8407#section-4.3.1 Indeed they do. I had forgotten that. What triggered my post was a review in 2021 (AD, YANG Doctor) which told an author to use lower case since