Re: [netmod] Adding a pre-existing leaf into a new 'choice' - NBC change?

Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> Fri, 23 November 2018 21:00 UTC

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From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de>
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Subject: Re: [netmod] Adding a pre-existing leaf into a new 'choice' - NBC change?
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On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 09:23:01AM -0800, Andy Bierman wrote:
> 
> IMO the RFC has a lot of room for improvement in this area:
> 
>  - the term "data node" is never defined but used 47 times
>  - the term "data node identifier" is not defined or used
>  - the term "schema node identifier" is defined and used 14 times
>    (defined in sec. 3 Terminology and again in sec. 6.5)
>  - every statement that uses some sort of path identifier (e.g. 9.9.2)
> needs to clearly specify
>    whether the syntax is based on schema-node identifier or data-node
> identifier
>

We either fix one thing at a time or we give up and hope for a better
future to arrive somehow.

/js

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