Re: [core] YANG list to CBOR mapping

[Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]>]

Michel Veillette wrote:
> Hi Peter
> 
> Have you defined an MergePatch() function similar to RFC 7396 section 2 for your proposed extension?

AFAIK, the function defined by RFC 7396 should "just work".

> Do we intent to support two PATCH approaches, RFC 7396 style and draft-ietf-netconf-yang-patch style?

Good question.  yang-patch seems a bit more complicated than is needed
for many constrained applications.  It also is not idempotent.

> IF so, why list need to be supported by the RFC 7396 style since this approach provide a partial coverage (list without keys and user ordered list is not fully supported) ? Should we address list only in the draft-ietf-netconf-yang-patch style?

I would expect many constrained applications to make use of maps, which
typically are represented in YANG as lists with keys*).  So I would
prefer to be able to address these with a simple, merge-patch style
update mechanism.

Grüße, Carsten

*) leaf-lists are a special case where updating isn't quite addressed
yet by CoMI as far as I know.