Hi,
Alex Campbell <alex.campb...@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-boun...@ietf.org> on behalf of Acee Lindem (acee)
> <a...@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-boun...@ietf.org on behalf of
> j.schoenwael...@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
>
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