Re: [netconf] YANG attributes in a datastore

Kent Watsen <kent@watsen.net> Tue, 10 December 2019 17:06 UTC

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Subject: Re: [netconf] YANG attributes in a datastore
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> OK, but there is no way to prevent "annotation zipcode", etc.
> The use of foo="value" to set and foo="" to delete seems fine, but not sure any new
> standards are needed for that.


Metadata is not data.  Whilst syntacally possible, and some may attempt to [mis-]use
it as such, we must hold the line that any IETF-defined metadata/annotations do not
encode data.

Kent // contributor