On Aug 14, 2013, at 13:40, Randy Bush <ra...@psg.com> wrote: >> YANG seems to be incompatible with CBOR. > > so what does that say about yang, yang's suitability for netconf, cbor, > and cbor's suitability?
Good question. I'm not sure the jury is even out on that yet. Yaron reminded me that netconf is using XPath for various purposes, so a CBOR rendition of netconf would need to do the same that you would need for doing netconf with JSON: either replace XPath with something else (indeed causing some incompatibility), or explain how to use XPath with the CBOR/JSON translation of the YANG model (which might be interesting). CBOR certainly has no trouble carrying around the data described by a YANG model. (Indeed, CBOR's decimal fractions were inspired by YANG's.) But then, I don't have an opinion whether adding a binary object representation to the netconf ecosystem is on the agenda. Grüße, Carsten
