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Re: [netmod] AD review of draft-ietf-netmod-system-mgmt

Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> Wed, 11 December 2013 08:38 UTC

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From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de>
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On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 01:18:10PM -0800, Randy Presuhn wrote:
 
> > Anyway, for a standardized approach, someone would have to write a
> > document that defines how unicode code points are represented as
> > escaped charater sequences in DisplayStrings. I do not think that this
> > document is in charge of doing this. Hence, until such a standard is
> > written, I think things need to be implementation specific.
> 
> Perhaps, though that is the route to being stuck with ASCII until the
> successor to Netconf rolls along.

Not necessarily. If you configure via NETCONF (or most CLIs these
days), you can use unicode characters. The code that maps names to
legacy non-unicode interfaces then needs to do suitable translations
to fit whatever constraint there is.

If someone configures via legacy non-unicode interfaces, well then
there is no unicode in the configured names. I do not think we can fix
that problem. This requires to change the legacy non-unicode
interfaces, which I think is not the task of this WG.

/js

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