I was not approaching this discuss with this level of change in mind. How many 
years does it take to get a YANG model even one as simple as this completed?

Thanks,
Chris.

> On Feb 14, 2020, at 5:43 AM, Rob Wilton (rwilton) <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Alexey, Christian, 
> 
> Allowing Unicode but requiring normalization as per RFC 5198 for IANA managed 
> tags makes sense to me.
> 
> But does the server also need to normalize any configured tags?  I.e. should 
> the description for the tag typedef also specify that tags SHOULD be 
> normalized, and specify a normalization method that SHOULD be used?  Or is 
> the onus on the client to use sensible (i.e. already normalized) values, and 
> if so, does that need to be stated?
> 
> Thanks,
> Rob
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: iesg <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Alexey Melnikov
>> Sent: 13 February 2020 13:10
>> To: Christian Hopps <[email protected]>
>> Cc: [email protected]; Joel Jaeggli <[email protected]>; The IESG
>> <[email protected]>; [email protected]; [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: Alexey Melnikov's Discuss on draft-ietf-netmod-module-tags-
>> 07: (with DISCUSS)
>> 
>> Hi Christian,
>> 
>> On Thu, Feb 13, 2020, at 12:30 AM, Christian Hopps wrote:
>>> The intent in the document is to place as few restrictions on tags as
>>> possible to allow for future-proofing and organic growth of use both
>>> within and outside of SDOs. For standard tags we trust IANA (and the
>>> human behind the process) to make the call on whether a tag is already
>>> present. :)
>> 
>> And the problem with that is that because there might be multiple ways to
>> encode in Unicode visually indistinguishable tags IANA would end up asking
>> IESG for help.
>> 
>> So you need to at minimum specify a Unicode normalization form to use. I
>> suggest you normatively reference RFC 5198 here.
>> 
>>> Having worked for a company where a lot of XML string data was
>>> non-ascii I find limiting to ascii to be rather restrictive.
>> 
>> Best Regards,
>> Alexey
>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Chris.
>>> 
>>>> On Apr 11, 2019, at 9:41 AM, Alexey Melnikov via Datatracker
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Alexey Melnikov has entered the following ballot position for
>>>> draft-ietf-netmod-module-tags-07: Discuss
>>>> 
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>>>> 
>>>> 
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>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> The document, along with other ballot positions, can be found here:
>>>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-netmod-module-tags/
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> --
>>>> DISCUSS:
>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> --
>>>> 
>>>> This is generally a fine document, but after checking RFC 7950
>>>> syntax for strings I question why you think you need non ASCII tags.
>>>> There are so many problems that can arise from that. For example,
>>>> how would IANA be able to enforce uniqueness of Unicode tags written
>>>> in different Unicode canonicalisation forms?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
> 

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