On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 09:51:41AM +0000, Rob Wilton (rwilton) wrote:
> Hi Juergen,
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: netmod <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Juergen
> > Schoenwaelder
> > Sent: 26 April 2019 18:30
> > To: Acee Lindem (acee) <[email protected]>
> > Cc: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [netmod] 6021 ipv4-prefix
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 04:55:02PM +0000, Acee Lindem (acee) wrote:
> > > Hi Juergen,
> > >
> > > I must admit that I think this is the worst possible outcome. Independent
> > > of the
> > original intent, at a high level it is just not a good idea to accept the
> > non-
> > canonical prefix format and return the canonical format.
> > >
> >
> > So you propose to deprecate the definitions and create new ones?
> > Otherwise, I can't follow why a clarification can be the worst possible
> > outcome.
> >
> > Note that we do have different lexical representations this in several other
> > places. We accept +17 to mean 17 (Section 9.1 of RFC 7950.)
>
> This feels somewhat different. I think that it well understood that these
> are just the same thing. E.g. anything that parses these into a integer type
> will internally end up with the same value in both cases.
>
For me, 10.0.0.0/8 and 10.0.0.1/8 both denote the same IPv4 prefix.
> I have a related question on the fraction-digits type:
>
> typedef my-decimal {
> type decimal64 {
> fraction-digits 2;
> range "1 .. 3.14 | 10 | 20..max";
> }
> }
>
> Should a server accept a value of "3.140" for my-decimal?
>
> What about "3.141"? I presume that servers would generally not accept (and
> then round) this value, and except clients to round appropriately before
> passing the value in.
Please start a separate thread if you want to discuss this.
/js
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