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Re: [NGO] NETCONF Data types

Balazs Lengyel <balazs.lengyel@ericsson.com> Wed, 05 December 2007 08:33 UTC

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From: Balazs Lengyel <balazs.lengyel@ericsson.com>
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Hello Sharon,
The uint32, int64 etc. integer types are not a left-overs from SMI. They are the integer 
types that people normally use in programing. Names like uint16, int32 are better then 
short or long. They tell you exactly what you deal with. I see this as an improvement over 
the XSD types.
Balazs

Sharon Chisholm wrote:
> Hi
> 
> One of the things that people seemed to agree on early in the NETCONF
> content discussion was that SNMP & SMI defined too many similar data
> types and we didn't want to do that in NETCONF. Do people still agree
> that we don't want 30 flavours of integers defined? I prefer focusing
> our efforts on defining higher level data types.
> 
> Sharon Chisholm
> Nortel 
> Ottawa, Ontario
> Canada
> 
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