Re: [i2rs] Comments on draft-clarke-i2rs-traceability

2014-04-15 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On 4/14/14, 8:01 PM, Jeffrey Haas wrote: Authors, While reviewing draft-clarke-i2rs-traceability, one big thing jumped out at me that will require a bit more consideration: ABNF is only ASCII-friendly. Since one of the data modeling languages we're considering is Yang, we need to have support

Re: [i2rs] Comments on draft-clarke-i2rs-traceability

2014-04-15 Thread Dean Bogdanovic
Joe, Besides having the same comment as Jeff, here is one more and think some additional clarification is needed Actor Identifier: This is an opaque identifier that may be known to the Client from a northbound controlling application. This is used to trace the northbound actor

Re: [i2rs] Comments on draft-clarke-i2rs-traceability

2014-04-15 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On 4/15/14, 2:09 PM, Dean Bogdanovic wrote: Joe, Besides having the same comment as Jeff, here is one more and think some additional clarification is needed Actor Identifier: This is an opaque identifier that may be known to the Client from a northbound controlling application. This

Re: [i2rs] Comments on draft-clarke-i2rs-traceability

2014-04-15 Thread Gonzalo Salgueiro (gsalguei)
As Joe mentioned, we're certainly open to expanding to UTF-8. To your (valid) point regarding YANG, would the group prefer to see the trace log syntax expressed in YANG instead of ABNF? We stuck with BNF-based out of sheer habit. If we did this, for the sake of consistency, would we also want

Re: [i2rs] Comments on draft-clarke-i2rs-traceability

2014-04-15 Thread Joel M. Halpern
The question about languages mixes three very different spaces. 1) Is the format of a (potentially binary) packet on the wire, in this case the trace log syntax. 2) Is the data model for the command exchanges. 3) Is the language used for information modeling. Taking them in reverse order,