Re: [Netconf] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC6241 (5401)

Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> Thu, 21 June 2018 10:58 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Netconf] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC6241 (5401)
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On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 02:17:36AM -0700, RFC Errata System wrote:
> Notes
> -----
> It is unclear what is the meaning of "invalid-value" "error". Since the xpath will be part of "select" attribute, we can assume that a server can return a "bad-attribute" error-tag and having error-message indicating invalid-value for the attribute. This clarifies the <error-tag> to be used in such cases.
> In other places, where error-tag has been mentioned, it is clear that "invalid-value" <error-tag> must be used.
>

The "invalid-value" error tag is defined in Appendix A and there are
also examples in section 4.3 showing how this error tag is used.
People who search for "invalid-value" in the RFC should likely figure
our what is meant by '"invalid-value" error'. That said, if this
deserves fixing, then it deserves fixing everywhere where this phrase
occurs and not in just a single place (I counted three occurances of
this phrase).

/js

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