Re: Gen-Art LC review: draft-ietf-netmod-yang-metadata-04

[Robert Sparks <[e-mail]>]

Yes, thanks.

On 3/11/16 9:04 AM, Ladislav Lhotka wrote:
>> On 11 Mar 2016, at 14:07, Juergen Schoenwaelder <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 11:15:28AM +0000, tom p. wrote:
>>> Lada, Robert
>>>
>>> The other angle from which this might be approached is that the I-D
>>> already says
>>>
>>> "   Using the "type" statement, a type is specified for the annotation
>>>    value according to the same rules as for YANG "leaf" type. "
>>>
>>> while rfc6020bis says
>>>
>>> "   The "leaf" statement is used to define a scalar variable of a
>>>    particular built-in or derived type."
>>>
>>> so if you know your YANG off by heart, then you will know that
>>> annotations must be scalar.  I agree that the text needs to be clearer.
>>> Perhaps,
>>> OLD
>>> "   o  annotations are scalar values and cannot be further structured;"
>>> NEW
>>> "Annotations obey the same rules as for a YANG "leaf" type [rfc6020bis
>>> s.7.6] and so are limited to scalar variables."
>> There is no 'leaf type' in YANG. YANG has leaf nodes in the schema
>> tree. An annotation is not a node in the schema tree. Perhaps
>> something like this:
>>
>>   An annotation carries a single value. The type substatement, which
>>   must be present, takes as an argument the name of an existing
>>   built-in or derived type and the value of the annotation must match
>>   this type. See Section 7.4 of [RFC6020bis] for details.
> Looks good, thanks. Robert, Tom, do you think this text is sufficient?
>
> Lada
>
>> /js
>>
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