Re: [Netconf] mbj's WGLC review of yang-push-17

Martin Bjorklund <mbj@tail-f.com> Mon, 24 September 2018 07:36 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Netconf] mbj's WGLC review of yang-push-17
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Alexander Clemm <alexander.clemm@huawei.com> wrote:
> I am about to post -19 but I do not like the suggested change to go
> from timeticks to seconds.
> 
> Seconds is a fairly coarse unit.  I would not be surprised to see
> requirements for finer granularity in the future, even more so in
> virtualization and controller scenarios in which we start to see YANG
> being used.  There are applications that use single second periods
> today so I think it is entirely conceivable to see need for subsecond
> support down the line.  To allow periods only in units of seconds
> would seem to unnecessarily hobble ourselves.  Keeping things to
> timeticks is more futureproof IMHO.

Ok.


/martin



> 
> --- Alex
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Martin Bjorklund [mailto:mbj@tail-f.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2018 12:45 AM
> > To: kwatsen@juniper.net
> > Cc: Alexander Clemm <alexander.clemm@huawei.com>; netconf@ietf.org
> > Subject: Re: [Netconf] mbj's WGLC review of yang-push-17
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Thanks Kent, I missed this one.
> > 
> > Authors, I suggest we change the type for "yp:period" from
> > "yang:timeticks" to
> > "uint32" with units "seconds".
> > 
> > See the thread starting at
> > https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/netconf/SU1VnBV1Ea5Ae3QzPn_joyyRnZ
> > o
> > 
> > 
> > /martin
> > 
> > 
> > Kent Watsen <kwatsen@juniper.net> wrote:
> > > Hi Martin,
> > >
> > > I'm surprised to see that your review doesn't suggest changing
> > > "yp:period" from yang:timeticks to seconds.
> > >
> > > You had previously made this suggestion in another thread, but it's
> > > still timeticks in -18.
> > >
> > > Kent // all hat
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
>