[netmod] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC6020 (4911)

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The following errata report has been submitted for RFC6020,
"YANG - A Data Modeling Language for the Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF)".

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Type: Technical
Reported by: Ladislav Lhotka <[e-mail]>

Section: 6.1.3

Original Text
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Within a double-quoted string (enclosed within " "), a backslash
character introduces a special character, which depends on the
character that immediately follows the backslash:

 \n      new line
 \t      a tab character
 \"      a double quote
 \      a single backslash


Corrected Text
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Within a double-quoted string (enclosed within " "), a backslash
character introduces a special character, which depends on the
character that immediately follows the backslash:

 \n      new line
 \t      a tab character
 \"      a double quote
 \      a single backslash

The backslash MUST NOT be followed by any other character.

Notes
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The text doesn't state whether other characters may follow the backslash, and if yes, what it means. Existing implementations have used three approaches:

1. report an error if another character follows the backslash
2. keep only the character following the backslash, i.e., for example, "\x" is the same as "x".
3. keep both the backslash and the character following it.

This ambiguity is undesirable and YANG 1.1 [RFC 7950] explicitly adopted option #1. However, many modules are still being written using YANG version 1.0, so it is important to clarify this issue in RFC 6020 as well.

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RFC6020 (draft-ietf-netmod-yang-13)
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Title               : YANG - A Data Modeling Language for the Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF)
Publication Date    : October 2010
Author(s)           : M. Bjorklund, Ed.
Category            : PROPOSED STANDARD
Source              : NETCONF Data Modeling Language
Area                : Operations and Management
Stream              : IETF
Verifying Party     : IESG