Re: [netmod] draft-ietf-netmod-rfc6991-bis: Comment on node-instance-identifier

[Schönwälder, Jürgen <[e-mail]>]

Hi,

this may be resolved by adding

     The special value '/' refers to the entire accessible tree.

to the description statement. Does this work for you?

/js

On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 03:17:25PM +0100, Robert Wilton wrote:
> Hi Juergen,
> 
> Should the "node-instance-identify" type specify how the path "/" is
> treated?
> 
> I noted that in rfc8341, the behavior for "/" is described in the leaf
> "path" description rather than in the type definition, but I was thinking
> that it might be better if this behaviour was specified as part of the
> typedef.
> 
> Snippet from RFC8341:
> 
>              case data-node {
>                leaf path {
>                  type node-instance-identifier;
>                  mandatory true;
>                  description
>                    "Data node instance-identifier associated with the
>                     data node, action, or notification controlled by
>                     this rule.
> 
>                     Configuration data or state data
>                     instance-identifiers start with a top-level
>                     data node.  A complete instance-identifier is
>                     required for this type of path value.
> 
>                     The special value '/' refers to all possible
>                     datastore contents.";
>                }
>              }
> 
> Thanks,
> Rob
> 

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