Re: [netmod] New Version Notification for draft-ietf-netmod-iana-timezones-01.txt
Martin Bjorklund <mbj@tail-f.com> Tue, 12 November 2013 16:31 UTC
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Subject: Re: [netmod] New Version Notification for draft-ietf-netmod-iana-timezones-01.txt
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Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 04:05:31PM +0000, Lange, Jeffrey K (GE Energy > Management) wrote: > > I've updated the iana timezone typedef to reflect the latest version > > of the IANA timezone database. However in doing this I think I've > > found a larger issue. One of the changes was the removal of the > > timezone "Antarctica/South_Pole" This leads to a problem if we are > > trying to reflect this as an enumeration (with an auto incrementing > > value). Would this not make more sense to convert this to an identity > > so that changes to the IANA timezone database would not be as > > intrusive? > > Thanks for looking into the update. > > Concerning the removal, I think the proper YANG way would be to mark > the status of the enum obsolete. This should actually be discussed in > the IANA guidelines. +1 > I am not sure how choosing identities instead of > enums makes a difference here - perhaps I am missing something? In fact, using identities give the impression that this is a "decentralized extensible enumeration", which I believe it is not. It is a centralized enumeration. /martin
- Re: [netmod] New Version Notification for draft-i… Lange, Jeffrey K (GE Energy Management)
- Re: [netmod] New Version Notification for draft-i… Juergen Schoenwaelder
- Re: [netmod] New Version Notification for draft-i… Martin Bjorklund
- Re: [netmod] New Version Notification for draft-i… Lange, Jeffrey K (GE Energy Management)
- Re: [netmod] New Version Notification for draft-i… Juergen Schoenwaelder
- Re: [netmod] New Version Notification for draft-i… Juergen Schoenwaelder