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

["Rob Wilton (rwilton)" <[e-mail]>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: netmod <[e-mail]> On Behalf Of Martin Bjorklund
> Sent: 02 April 2019 13:47
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> Subject: Re: [netmod] 6991bis: address-with-prefix-length
> 
> 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.

Isn't an "IP prefix" made up of an "IP address" and a "prefix length"?

So, I think that the names above are probably right, or otherwise if you want the "and" then perhaps it should be "ip-address-and-prefix-length" - which seems clunky?

Thanks,
Rob


> 
> 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]>; "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]>, 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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