On Wed, 2018-11-14 at 09:10 +0100, Martin Bjorklund wrote: > Hi, > > Alex Campbell <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> on behalf of Acee Lindem (acee) > > <[email protected]> > > 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" > > <[email protected] on behalf of > > [email protected]> 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 > > > > -- > > Juergen Schoenwaelder Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH > > Phone: +49 421 200 3587 Campus Ring 1 | 28759 Bremen | Germany > > Fax: +49 421 200 3103 <https://www.jacobs-university.de/> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > netmod mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/netmod > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > netmod mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/netmod > > _______________________________________________ > > netmod mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/netmod > _______________________________________________ > netmod mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/netmod -- Ladislav Lhotka Head, CZ.NIC Labs PGP Key ID: 0xB8F92B08A9F76C67 _______________________________________________ netmod mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/netmod
