Re: [Rtg-yang-coord] LIME connection-less draft-rtgyangdt-rtgwg-routing-types

[Juergen Schoenwaelder <[e-mail]>]

Another option could be to reuse the definitions from ietf-inet-types
and to subtype them to constrain them to multicast addresses. Also
double check that you will never ever need a zone index.

/js

On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 12:08:31PM +0900, Benoit Claise wrote:
> draft-rtgyangdt-rtgwg-routing-types authors,
> 
> I see the following typedef in draft-ietf-lime-yang-connectionless-oam
> 
>      typedef IPv4-Multicast-Group-Address {
>             type string {
>              pattern '(2((2[4-9])|(3[0-9]))\.)'
>                          +'(([0-9]|[1-9][0-9]|1[0-9][0-9]|'
>                          +'2[0-4][0-9]|25[0-5])\.){2}'
>                          +'([0-9]|[1-9][0-9]|1[0-9][0-9]'
>                          +'|2[0-4][0-9]|25[0-5])';
>             }
>             description
>               "The IPv4-Multicast-Group-Address type
>                represents an IPv4 multicast address
>                in dotted-quad notation.";
>             reference "RFC4607 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4607>";
>       } // typedef IPv4-Multicast-Group-Address
>       typedef IPv6-Multicast-Group-Address {
>             type string {
>             pattern
>                         '(((FF|ff)[0-9a-fA-F]{2}):)([0-9a-fA-F]'
>                         +'{0,4}:){0,5}((([0-9a-fA-F]{0,4}:)?'
>                         +'(:|[0-9a-fA-F]{0,4}))|(((25[0-5]|2[0-4]'
>                         +'[0-9]|[01]?[0-9]?[0-9])\.){3}(25[0-5]|'
>                         +'2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9]?[0-9])))';
>             pattern
>             '(([^:]+:){6}(([^:]+:[^:]+)|'
>                         +'(.*\..*)))|((([^:]+:)*[^:]+)'
>                         +'?::(([^:]+:)*[^:]+)?)';
>              }
>             description
>                         "The IPv6-Multicast-Group-Address
>                         type represents an IPv6 address in full,
>                         mixed, shortened, and shortened-mixed
>                         notation.";
>             reference "RFC4291 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4291>  2.7.
>             ietf-inet-types:ipv6-address";
>       }
>       typedef IP-Multicast-Group-Address {
>             type union {
>               type IPv4-Multicast-Group-Address;
>               type IPv6-Multicast-Group-Address;
>             }
> 
>             description
>              "The IP-Multicast-Group-Address type
>               represents an IP multicast address and
>               is IP version neutral. The format of the
>               textual representations implies the IP version.";
>       } // typedef IP-Multicast-Group-Address
> 
> 
> It's probably a good idea to introduce those typedefs in your draft, for
> everybody's interest.
> Now, hopefully, your draft will be published very soon. We can't delay other
> doc publications.
> 
> Also, look at this new tool, developed during this hackathon (new tool, so
> bare with us): http://yangcatalog.org/yang-search/yang-search.php
> You should do a couple of searches with specific keywords.
> For example, I searched on "multicast" and typedef.
>     Note: we get some hits from YANG modules generated from MIB. Not sure
> how useful that is.
> We want to make sure there are no discrepancies in the typedef, and that the
> typedef definitions are not spread around in too many documents.
> 
> Regards, Benoit
> 
> 

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