RE: comments on data types draft

["Sharon Chisholm" <schishol@nortel.com>]

hi

I meant that these have an application flavour as appose to: counter
versus gauge versus INTEGER versus Integer versus ...

Sharon

-----Original Message-----
From: Juergen Schoenwaelder [mailto:j.schoenwaelder@iu-bremen.de] 
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 8:41 AM
To: Chisholm, Sharon [CAR:5K50:EXCH]
Cc: netconf@ops.ietf.org
Subject: Re: comments on data types draft


On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 08:29:14AM -0400, Sharon Chisholm wrote:

> - I think creating these type definitions is really important and this

> list seems to be at the correct level of abstraction, as appose to 100

> flavours of integers.

I am not sure I understand.

Introducing types for things that essentially are integers such as port 
numbers, vlan ids, interface numbers, AS numbers, diffserv code points, 
... is IMHO useful since these types usually come with specific
restrictions 
that without well defined types tend to be incompatible and the types
help to convey semantics to the reader if they are properly named. 
Perhaps you had something different in mind when you wrote "100 flavours

of integers". Perhaps you meant the many different number types already
present in the XML schema language. ;-)

/js

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