Juergen Schoenwaelder <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 02:18:43PM +0200, Martin Bjorklund wrote: > > > > > It > > > is sometimes convenient to treat something that is in fact constructed > > > as an atomic value. > > > > Convenient for users that enter these values, perhaps. But not as > > convenient for a program (or a filter) that needs one of the combined > > values. For example, suppose I want to find all entries with a given > > prefix; that is non-trivial with a combined ip-address-and-prefix > > type. > > > > Syntactically, ip-prefix and ip-address-and-prefix look the same, it > is all about whether the non-prefix bits carry a meaning or not. Once > these bits carry a meaning, you argue that this combination is a bad > idea? Or do you argue that ip-prefix also is a bad idea
No, filtering works b/c ip-prefix has a canonical format. I argue that in general it is a bad idea to combine two values into one. /martin > (and if so do > you propose ip-prefix to be deprecated)? And what do we do with url? > > /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
