Re: [Cbor] [netmod] CBOR tags for Common YANG Data Types (RFC6991/bis)

[Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]>]

On 31. Jul 2022, at 02:12, Andy Bierman <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
>     leaf foo {
>         type inet:ipv6-address;
>         ext:cbor-type cbor:bin-ipv6-address;
>     }

This looks like the right thing to do.
But it touches many moving parts, and I’m wondering whether we cannot do something with a more localized footprint.

This is all about the representation; the data model doesn’t actually change (*).
We don’t need to change the model to go from XML to JSON, why should we need to do that here?

Maybe this could be done via a concept that looks more like a SID file.
It would need to be visible in a yang-library-like model.

Grüße, Carsten


(*) Well, maybe it does: E.g., when using Tag 1 for a date/time, there is no way to represent a numerical offset.
That is generally not needed, so the conversion would work in the majority of cases.
If a numerical offset needs to be expressed, the text-based form could be used.