Re: [netmod] Add "node-instance-identifier" to rfc6991-bis?

Kent Watsen <kent+ietf@watsen.net> Fri, 17 April 2020 01:13 UTC

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Subject: Re: [netmod] Add "node-instance-identifier" to rfc6991-bis?
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>>>> PS: the "token” type add discussion from before never completed (again, modeled after xsd:token)
>> 
>> What about this?
>> 
> 
> What would this type be good for? Any models already using something
> like this?


Not in a standard model, that I’m aware of but, back at Juniper, I had a typedef for this that I used as a basis for so many things, but mostly things intended to be identifiers of sorts, whereby having whitespace didn’t make sense.

Kent // contributor