Re: [netmod] hex-string as built-in type in future versions of YANG

2019-11-06 Thread Schönwälder , Jürgen
On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 06:15:25PM +, Vladimir Vassilev wrote: > > There is no technical reason at all to have MAC addresses represented as > pattern constrained strings and not "binary" of length 6 (as it was in > SMIv2 MIBs) either. There is no technical reason for ethertype to be >

Re: [netmod] hex-string as built-in type in future versions of YANG

2019-11-06 Thread Vladimir Vassilev
On 06/11/2019 15.10, Schönwälder, Jürgen wrote: > On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 01:29:41PM +, Vladimir Vassilev wrote: >> [2] Some of the types are based on strings with complex lexical >> representation with canonical form specified in description statement >> which is neither scalable nor

Re: [netmod] hex-string as built-in type in future versions of YANG

2019-11-06 Thread Scott Mansfield
The licensing information for IEEE YANG models can be found here... https://github.com/YangModels/yang (YANG Catalog's github repository) If you scroll down there is the text of the README.md file, there you will find... In the Models Directory Structure section: yang/standard/ieee: standard

Re: [netmod] hex-string as built-in type in future versions of YANG

2019-11-06 Thread Schönwälder , Jürgen
On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 01:29:41PM +, Vladimir Vassilev wrote: > > [2] Some of the types are based on strings with complex lexical > representation with canonical form specified in description statement > which is neither scalable nor automation friendly. For example the > "ethertype-type"

[netmod] hex-string as built-in type in future versions of YANG

2019-11-06 Thread Vladimir Vassilev
Moving a netmod relevant topic from a thread on the bmwg mailing list https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/bmwg/GwkVykKmOX7DFokCFynJVy_ZwZ8 On 29/10/2019 13.32, tom petch wrote: > Picking up the point below about vlan, this is where the IETF is not > doing the job it might. 'vlan' appears in