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Re: [netmod] AD review of draft-ietf-netmod-system-mgmt

Randy Presuhn <randy_presuhn@mindspring.com> Wed, 11 December 2013 17:48 UTC

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Hi -

>From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de>
>Sent: Dec 11, 2013 12:38 AM
>To: Randy Presuhn <randy_presuhn@mindspring.com>
>Cc: netmod@ietf.org
>Subject: Re: [netmod] AD review of draft-ietf-netmod-system-mgmt
>
>On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 01:18:10PM -0800, Randy Presuhn wrote:
> 
>> > Anyway, for a standardized approach, someone would have to write a
>> > document that defines how unicode code points are represented as
>> > escaped charater sequences in DisplayStrings. I do not think that this
>> > document is in charge of doing this. Hence, until such a standard is
>> > written, I think things need to be implementation specific.
>> 
>> Perhaps, though that is the route to being stuck with ASCII until the
>> successor to Netconf rolls along.
>
>Not necessarily. If you configure via NETCONF (or most CLIs these
>days), you can use unicode characters. The code that maps names to
>legacy non-unicode interfaces then needs to do suitable translations
>to fit whatever constraint there is.

Not if the data definition restricts the values to an ASCII
subset, as has been proposed.  What's in the draft at the
moment will bring its own interoperability problems, but
at least it's a baby step forward.

Randy

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