Re: What to reference when importing an IANA module?

> On Jan 13, 2023, at 11:25 AM, Benoit Claise <benoit.claise=40huawei.com-Tr9gZwTxerDR74oF6e/[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Tom,
>> Yes I do think that people outside the IETF may be ignorant of the nuances of the way the IETF works and  may not realise that a URL to the IANA website must be used in preference to an RFC.  There is more to YANG modules than extracting the code from somewhere in order to incorporate it into something.  I have even seen RFC reference the obsolete list of possibilities  in the RFC that set up an IANA registry
> If this is the case (And Randy supports this), then we should update RFC 8047.

Agreed - as a hold for document update?

Currently RFC 8407, Section 3.9 says:

   For every import or include statement that appears in a module
   contained in the specification that identifies a module in a separate
   document, a corresponding normative reference to that document MUST
   appear in the Normative References section.  The reference MUST
   correspond to the specific module version actually used within the
   specification.

Want to take a swing at it?

K.