Re: [netmod] json empty leaf encoding strangeness [Re: WG Last Call for draft-ietf-netmod-yang-json-04 (until 2015-06-29)]

Christian Hopps <chopps@chopps.org> Mon, 20 December 2021 21:53 UTC

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Subject: Re: [netmod] json empty leaf encoding strangeness [Re: WG Last Call for draft-ietf-netmod-yang-json-04 (until 2015-06-29)]
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> On Dec 18, 2021, at 11:33 AM, Andy Bierman <andy@yumaworks.com> wrote:
> 
> Thank you for caring about backward compatibility and stability.
> 

I guess I left as implicit in my question of whether we could do something to fix it, that that "could" implied a fix wouldn't break things. I certainly care about stability and backward compatibility.

Thanks,
Chris.