Re: [netmod] for a future rfc6991bis

[Robert Wilton <[e-mail]>]

Hi Juergen,

YANG library currently defines the type "revision-identifer".  Is this a 
typedef that should logically migrate to rfc6991bis?

Thanks,
Rob

On 14/11/2018 08:16, Ladislav Lhotka wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-11-14 at 09:10 +0100, Martin Bjorklund wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Alex Campbell <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>> Does a percentage really need a single standard type in the first
>>> place? How about "units percent;"?
>> At this point, after hearing about how different modules have
>> differing requirement on this type, I tend to agree.
> +1
>
> Or even "units %;"
>
> Lada
>
>>
>> /martin
>>
>>
>>> ________________________________________
>>> From: netmod <[e-mail]> on behalf of Acee Lindem (acee)
>>> <[e-mail]>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, 14 November 2018 5:03 a.m.
>>> To: Juergen Schoenwaelder; Balázs Lengyel
>>> Cc: NETMOD WG
>>> Subject: Re: [netmod] for a future rfc6991bis
>>>
>>> On 11/13/18, 9:07 AM, "netmod on behalf of Juergen Schoenwaelder"
>>> <[e-mail] on behalf of
>>> [e-mail]> wrote:
>>>
>>>      On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 01:33:01PM +0000, Balázs Lengyel wrote:
>>>      > Hello,
>>>      >
>>>      > In some cases I want a percentage without fractions. This could be
>>>      > defined
>>>      > using range, by specifying the numbers 0 | 1 | 2 ... 99 | 100 in the
>>>      > range's
>>>      > argument.
>>>      >
>>>      >     typedef percent-short {
>>>      >       type percent { range 0 | 1 | 2 ... 99 | 100; } // didn't type
>>> out
>>>      >       all the 101 integer values :-)
>>>      >     }
>>>      >
>>>
>>>      I guess we need to settle on a small number of percentage types that
>>>      people find useful and then module authors hopefully find what they
>>>      need. I am not sure that listing 101 numbers is a good pattern to use
>>>      (although it does achieve what you want). For percentages that have no
>>>      fraction, you likely want to derive from a base type that is efficient
>>>      to encode for binary encodings such as CBOR.
>>>
>>> Or simply define a type with a base type of unit8 type and a range of
>>> 0-100.
>>>
>>> Acee
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>      /js
>>>
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