Re: What to reference when importing an IANA module?

Hi Med,

On 1/17/2023 2:46 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>
> If we want to add an IANA link to update RFC 8407, Section 3.9, a 
> couple of remarks:
> - It's not clear what "a normative reference with the IANA URL" is.
>     Is it 
> https://www.iana.org/assignments/yang-parameters/yang-parameters.xhtml?
>     Or is it 
> https://www.iana.org/assignments/yang-parameters/[email protected]?
>     The more precise the later, right?
>
> *//*
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> */[Med] None of them. IANA is using dedicated URLs:/*
>
> */* 
> https://www.iana.org/assignments/iana-bgp-l2-encaps/iana-bgp-l2-encaps.xhtml/*
>
> */* 
> https://www.iana.org/assignments/iana-pseudowire-types/iana-pseudowire-types.xhtml/*
>
> */* https://www.iana.org/assignments/iana-bfd-types/iana-bfd-types.xhtml/*
>
That would work.
We would need
     - to get the guarantee (from IANA) that those URLs are permanent
     - to clearly mention that THIS URL type is required for IETF YANG 
modules

Regards, Benoit
>
> *//*
>
>
>     However, the latter, which is a typical example of IANA maintained 
> YANG module does NOT work, as the revision in the URL changes with any 
> IAN update
> - So this leads to have both RFC and IANA, so 
> https://www.iana.org/assignments/yang-parameters/yang-parameters.xhtml 
> <https://www.iana.org/assignments/yang-parameters/yang-parameters.xhtml>+ 
> RFC7224 (in the above example)
> - Also, we should make more generic for some other SDOs, as IANA is 
> for IETF only.
> And the guidelines are followed by others: BBF, IEEE, etc.
>