Re: [netmod] 6991bis: address-with-prefix-length

[Martin Bjorklund <[e-mail]>]

Juergen Schoenwaelder <[e-mail]> wrote:
> If you go back ~20 messages, my proposal was ip-address-prefix,
> ipv4-address-prefix, and ipv6-address-prefix.

Do we agree that this type really specifies two values in one?  If so
I think the "and" is useful.

Also note that the current text in RFC 6991 says:

     The ipv4-prefix type represents an IPv4 address prefix.

so having a type ipv4-address-prefix for something that is not (only) an
"ipv4 address prefix" is imo confusing.


/martin




> 
> /js
> 
> On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 11:13:09AM +0000, tom petch wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jeff Tantsura" <[e-mail]>
> > To: <[e-mail]>rg>; "Kristian Larsson" <[e-mail]>
> > Sent: Monday, April 01, 2019 11:09 PM
> > 
> > What Kristian has proposed makes sense, in favor.
> > 
> > <tp>
> > 
> > Yes, I support this idea and we should be able to come up with a more
> > user-friendly name;  address-prefix or address-length ?
> > 
> > Tom Petch
> > 
> > p.s.
> > 
> >    identifier          = (ALPHA / "_")
> >                          *(ALPHA / DIGIT / "_" / "-" / ".")
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Jeff
> > On Apr 1, 2019, 1:09 PM -0700, Kristian Larsson
> > <[e-mail]>et>, wrote:
> > > Hello Mahesh,
> > >
> > > On 2019-04-01 21:40, Mahesh Jethanandani wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On Apr 1, 2019, at 10:29 AM, Martin Bjorklund <[e-mail]>
> > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > I know that this type is convenient, esp. if you use it for manual
> > > > > input, but I wonder if it really is good practice to squeeze two
> > > > > values into one.
> > > >
> > > > Agree. The combination makes sense for CLI, but for modeling the
> > address and prefix should be separate.
> > >
> > > Okay, then why do we have an ip-prefix data type at all? With the same
> > > line of argument you apply, it should be split up.
> > >
> > > So you're the third person bringing up CLI. I don't get this at all. I
> > > don't see how CLI are different from everything else. This is about
> > data
> > > modeling and data modeling is about expressing the world in a data
> > > modeling language. It's like painting a picture but instead of a brush
> > > you have a schema language like YANG. What do you see? Express it. It
> > > doesn't matter if the purpose is a CLI, a web page or just exposing it
> > > via NETCONF for another system to consume.
> > >
> > > I think address-and-prefix-length is natural. JUNOS uses this format.
> > XR
> > > uses this format (for IPv6 at least). Nokia SROS uses this format.
> > >
> > > We have written a bunch of models where the lack of this IMHO makes
> > them
> > > less elegant. I'd like for there to be an IETF standard data type to
> > > make those models more elegant.
> > >
> > > Kind regards,
> > > Kristian.
> > >
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