Re: What to reference when importing an IANA module?

Dear all,

 From the initial problem statement:

    During a WG adoption poll we have received a comment that the URL
    should be added in the reference statement when importing a YANG
    module maintained by IANA

The important question to me is: is this reference text supposed to be 
read by a machine or a human?
It seems to me that the answer is "a human". 
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6020#section-7.19.4

If this is true, why do we care about having a URL in there?

Regards, Benoit

On 1/12/2023 1:20 PM, Italo Busi wrote:
> Hi all,
> Happy New Year
> During a WG adoption poll we have received a comment that the URL 
> should be added in the reference statement when importing a YANG 
> module maintained by IANA and we are not sure how to address this comment
> See: 
> _https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ccamp/zD6gAfEUlYJ4W3qQlz6Y_gfX5TY/_ 
> <https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ccamp/zD6gAfEUlYJ4W3qQlz6Y_gfX5TY/>
> I have checked RFC8407 but I have not found any guideline on what to 
> reference when importing an IANA module
> I have checked a couple of examples I knew (RFC8343 and RFC8348) and 
> noted that the IANA modules are imported with no reference
> I have also noted that within the IANA YANG model registry, the 
> reference for the IANA modules is the RFC where the module has been 
> initially defined:
> _https://www.iana.org/assignments/yang-parameters/yang-parameters.xhtml_ 
> <https://www.iana.org/assignments/yang-parameters/yang-parameters.xhtml>
> What would be your suggestion?
> Are there any guidelines I have missed?
> Do you know if there are other examples of published RFCs importing an 
> IANA module?
> Thanks in advance
> Italo
>
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