YANGsters meeting minutes week 25 (2020-06-16)

[Scott Mansfield <00000ed5b91c6518-dmarc-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

YANGsters Weekly Telephone Conference

 

Date/Time:

2020-06-16 (week 25)

10 a.m. – 11 a.m. (Eastern Time)

Participants:

• Scott Mansfield (Telefon AB LM Ericsson)
• Marc Holness (Ciena)
• Johannes Specht (University of Duisburg-Essen)
• Don Fedyk (LabN Consulting)
• Mark Ellison (Independent)
• William Zhao (Siemens AG)
• Paul Congdon (Tallac)
• Rob Wilton (Cisco)
• Glenn Parsons (Ericsson)

Topics:

• At the beginning of the meeting the YANGsters Chair presented:
• The IEEE SA Copyright Policy slides,
• The IEEE SA PatCom Patent Slides for Standards Development Meetings,
• The IEEE 802 Participation slide,
• The Decorum information contained in http://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2019/admin-farkas-TSN-meeting-intro-1119-v01.pdf, and made the Call for Potentially Essential Patents. There were no responses to the calls prior to the end of the call.

• Agenda bash
• Agenda was agreed as presented on the slides (http://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2020/yangsters-smansfield-meeting-agenda-w25-0620-v02.pdf)
• Pretty Printing Update
• Confd from Mark Ellison
• Active Hot Issues
• MAC Address Format
• Reviewed slides in agenda
• Action Items:
• Scott to talk to 802.3 about mac-address definition used in published YANG.  The 802.3 modules use the IETF mac-address YANG module.
• Review IEEE modules for mac-address formats used
• Review IETF modules for mac-address formats used
• Rob Wilton has volunteered to help with communication with the IETF YANG Doctors.
• String comparison seems to be the issue.  There is currently no semantics to indicate when strings match
• This is important when strings are used as keys
• String display hints is not a feature in YANG either
• New Issues
• Naming Guidelines
• Slides reviewed
• Use shorter names where possible but avoid abbreviations and contrived acronyms that are not in common use.
• Leverage the context of the tree to help make names shorter but be wary of deleting too many words.
• Identities with Multiple Bases
• Information noted and contributions requested
• New Meeting Minute Format
• Need to support the new Meeting Minute Format --- TBD
• Continue Maintenance/Guidelines Discussion
• See: http://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2019/maint-specht-yang-comments-0919-v01.pdf
• No actions this week, Status on 11b and 12 and then continue with 13 for next meeting.
• Any Other Business
• Pretty Printer
• Currently hosted on a private github.  If you are an editor and want access, contact johannes.specht.standards@xxxxxxxxx
• Cleanup: Command line parameter names and descriptions
• New Feature: Parameters for normalization (tab width + codepage) of old published/draft file)
• New preso: http://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2020/new-specht-yang-pretty-printing-0620-v02.pdf
• Next week
• Please send agenda requests
• Issue Review
• Status on 11b and 12 and then continue with 13.
• https://1.ieee802.org/yangsters/yangsters-agenda/

 

 

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