Re: [Netconf] [netmod] date-and-time vs. dateTime

[Andy Bierman <andy at netconfcentral.com>]

Juergen Schoenwaelder wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 07:51:25AM +0200, Andy Bierman wrote:
> > Juergen Schoenwaelder wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 05:17:48AM +0200, Andy Bierman wrote:
> > >
> > > > I propose that RFC 5277 be "clarified" to indicate
> > > > that YANG date-and-time encoding rules SHOULD be
> > > > used instead of XSD dateTime.  The only differences
> > > > are pathological corner-cases that have no utility
> > > > in the <create-subscription> operation.
> > > I think RFC 5277 is a product of the NETCONF WG and thus your message
> > > should have gone to the NETCONF mailing list and not to the NETMOD
> > > mailing list.
> > OK -- another possible solution is to remove (or change)
> > any YANG data type that is not exactly like its XSD counterpart.
> > That would affect YANG, not NETCONF.
>
> Is that a serious proposal or just noise?

Quite serious.
The NETCONF WG is writing data models in XSD
and the NETMOD WG is writing YANG as if XSD did not
really exist.

Why do we need 2 sets of almost-compatible data types?

> /js

Andy