Re: [netmod] for a future rfc6991bis

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.

/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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