Rob,
I have added this to my list of things to look at. Whether we do this
or not may also depend on how the final date solution will look like
and whether people feel it is worth to move this out of rfc6991bis,
i.e., such a YANG revision-identifer is useful for modules that do
not want to depend on rfc6991bis.
/js
On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 11:03:45AM +0000, Robert Wilton wrote:
> Hi Juergen,
>
> YANG library currently defines the type "revision-identifer". Is this a
> typedef that should logically migrate to rfc6991bis?
>
> Thanks,
> Rob
>
> On 14/11/2018 08:16, Ladislav Lhotka wrote:
> > On Wed, 2018-11-14 at 09:10 +0100, Martin Bjorklund wrote:
> > > 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.
> > +1
> >
> > Or even "units %;"
> >
> > Lada
> >
> > >
> > > /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
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > /js
> > > >
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