Re: [netmod] for a future rfc6991bis

Martin Bjorklund <mbj@tail-f.com> Fri, 30 November 2018 10:25 UTC

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Subject: Re: [netmod] for a future rfc6991bis
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Balázs Lengyel <balazs.lengyel@ericsson.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> In a similar manner we found multiple uses for the
> ietf-netconf-acm:node-instance-identifier. We
> imported nacm just to reuse this type.
> Anyone else interested?

Yes, this is a useful type that is not just NACM-specific.  We also
use in various places.


/martin


> 
> regards Balazs
> 
> On 2018. 11. 29. 12:03, Robert Wilton wrote:
> 
>  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 <Alex.Campbell@Aviatnet.com> 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 <netmod-bounces@ietf.org> on behalf of Acee Lindem (acee)
>  <acee@cisco.com>
>  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"
>  <netmod-bounces@ietf.org on behalf of
>  j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> 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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