Re: Q: No max/ minMax length of anything?

[Andy Bierman <ietf@andybierman.com>]

Sharon Chisholm wrote:

> hi
>
> I'm looking to do some boundary testing against Netconf and it seems
> there isn't any guidance on the length of anything. Is this right? I
> know we have discussed this in terms of total message length, but is it
> also fair to say that the url one plugs into xmlns can be as long as you
> like? Other data is what you feel like implementing as well?
>
> While I agree with the principle of not constraining the
> implementations, I have suddenly realized it means more work for me with
> this particular task.  If people have thoughts on what would be
> considered 'best practice' for this, I'd love to hear.
>
>  

We decided (and nobody objected) that the message-id attribute is 
maxLength="4095".
Other than that, all data types are constrained AFAIK.  We don't control 
the URL limits.

> Thanks,
>
> Sharon Chisholm
> Nortel 
> Ottawa, Ontario
> Canada
>
>  


Andy



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