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Re: [core] content-formats for cbor YANG

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Fri, 21 April 2017 09:00 UTC

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From: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>
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Subject: Re: [core] content-formats for cbor YANG
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On Apr 21, 2017, at 09:18, peter van der Stok <stokcons@xs4all.nl> wrote:
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> Because the CoMI text now says that the payload of an array of one item can be optimized to just one item,
> I like to suppress the yang-value+cbor and only retain the yang-values+cbor

That would create an ambiguity if a value can ever be an array.

What is so bad about the media type being very specific about what the payload is?

Grüße, Carsten

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