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Re: [netmod] YANG definition of MAC address

"Rob Wilton (rwilton)" <rwilton@cisco.com> Wed, 01 April 2020 14:25 UTC

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From: "Rob Wilton (rwilton)" <rwilton@cisco.com>
To: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de>
> Sent: 01 April 2020 12:01
> To: Rob Wilton (rwilton) <rwilton@cisco.com>
> Cc: NetMod WG <netmod@ietf.org>
> Subject: Re: YANG definition of MAC address
> 
> On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 10:20:10AM +0000, Rob Wilton (rwilton) wrote:
> >
> > IEEE has their own definition using dashes instead of colons, i.e. the
> pattern is "[0-9a-fA-F]{2}(-[0-9a-fA-F]{2}){5}".
> >
> > E.g. from
> > https://github.com/YangModels/yang/blob/master/standard/ieee/draft/802
> > /ieee802-types.yang
> >
> > There has been some suggestion from folks in IEEE that they would like
> us to deprecate the IETF definition and migrate to the IEEE definition.
> However, this would end up being an NBC change and doesn't seem to be
> great from an interoperability POV.
> >
> > Another, possibly more pragmatic, suggestion would be the change both
> definitions to accept either ":" or "-".   I.e. the pattern statement
> would become:  "[0-9a-fA-F]{2}([-:][0-9a-fA-F]{2}){5}";
> >
> > What are folk's opinions of including this change in RFC 6991bis?
> >
> 
> As of today, you can't change the definition, you can only deprecate it
> and create a new one. On the technical side, we like to have canonical
> formats, so the debate what is the canonical format would still exist,
> even if we allow both formats as valid inputs.
[RW] 
I hadn't considered the canonical format/list key issue.  I will also point this out in the IEEE discussion.

> 
> Given that the colon format has been around for way more than 20 years
> (see for example RFC 2579, STD 58), this exercise seems like a waste of
> energy, it might take multiple decades to get changes widely implemented
> and deployed.
[RW] 

Thanks.  Yes, I have made both of those points.

Regards,
Rob


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