Last Call Review of draft-ietf-netmod-yang-model-classification-06
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Document: draft-ietf-netmod-yang-model-classification-??
Reviewer: Pete Resnick
Review Date: 2017-05-09
IETF LC End Date: 2017-05-14
IESG Telechat date: Not scheduled for a telechat

Summary: Ready with Minor Issues/Nits

To an outsider like me, this seems like a useful document and it was an
interesting read. The document could use a serious edit for grammar and typos.
A few specific comments below.

Major issues: None.

Minor issues:

In section 2.1, paragraphs 4 and 5 mention "speed". The speed of what?
Development of the module? It's not clear from the text.

In section 3.1, it says:

                          While there is no formal definition of what
   construes an SDO, a common feature is that they publish
   specifications along specific processes with content that reflects
   some sort of membership consensus.  The specifications are developed
   for wide use among the membership or for audiences beyond that.

First of all, s/construes/constitutes. But aside from that, it's not at all
clear to me that a common feature is "membership consensus". For example, we
don't have membership, and many other organizations use voting and not
consensus. Perhaps replace the above with something simpler like:

                          Most SDOs create specifications according to
   a formal process in order to produce a standard that is useful for
   their constituencies.

Nits/editorial comments:

In the Abstract and section 3.1, you use "standards-defining organization" for
SDO. I've never heard that phrase used before. Elsewhere in the document, you
use "standards development organization", which is the phrase I've always seen
used. I suggest you change to that in both places.

Throughout the document, you say things like, "the authors believe" or "we
assume". This is a WG consensus document. While I generally think that using
these terms is bad form in a WG document, saying "the authors believe" almost
sounds like the authors believe it, but the WG might not. If the authors and
the WG believe XYZ, don't say "the authors believe XYZ" or "we believe XYZ";
just say "XYZ", or at least use the passive voice. So:

Section 1:

OLD
   The intent of this document is to provide a taxonomy to simplify
   human communication around YANG modules.  The authors acknowledge
   that the classification boundaries are at times blurry, but believe
   that this document should provide a robust starting point as the YANG
   community gains further experience with designing and deploying
   modules.  To be more explicit, the authors believe that the
   classification criteria will change over time.
NEW
   The intent of this document is to provide a taxonomy to simplify
   human communication around YANG modules.  While the classification
   boundaries are at times blurry, this document should provide a robust
   starting point as the YANG community gains further experience with
   designing and deploying modules.  To be more explicit, it is expected
   that the classification criteria will change over time.
END

Section 2:

OLD
                                                     For the purpose of
   this document we assume that both approaches (bottom-up and top-down)
   will be used as they both provide benefits that appeal to different
   groups.
NEW
                                                     This document
   considers both bottom-up and top-down approaches as they are both used
   and they each provide benefits that appeal to different groups.
END

Section 2.1:

OLD
                                                     For the purpose of
   this document we will use the term "orchestrator" to describe a
   system implementing such a process.
NEW
                                                     For the purpose of
   this document, the term "orchestrator" is used to describe a system
   implementing such a process.

Section 2.2:

OLD
   Although the [RFC7950], [RFC7950] doesn't explain the relationship of
   the terms '(YANG) data model' and '(YANG) module', the authors
   understand there is a 1:1 relationship between a data model and a
   YANG module, but a data model may also be expressed using a
   collection of YANG modules (and submodules).

(This one's not even grammatical. Here's my best guess as to what you meant)

NEW
   Although [RFC7950] doesn't explain the relationship between the terms
   '(YANG) data model' and '(YANG) module', there is a 1:1 relationship
   between a data model and a YANG module. However, a data model may
   also be expressed using a collection of YANG modules (and submodules).

That's it for all of the "author" and "we" items. One other nit:

3.2 s/augmented into/added into. I don't think you can "augment into" something.