camoberg

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   by camoberg 10y ago

   So what you're saying then is that YANG could be a data modeling language for Lisp ;-)
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   by camoberg 10y ago

   But YANG does not do serialization, that's up to the protocol that acts on the YANG-modelled data sets. Depending on your needs, I do agree that there are good reasons to look at protocols with less overhead (some interesting work is b
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   by camoberg 10y ago

   I know that parts of the original design team for YANG are old lisp-fans, but I can't recall the option of developing a lisp-based DSL ever being evaluated. I would personally suggest that the fit would not be very good, since YANG is
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   by camoberg 10y ago

   Well, I would say that we did spend considerable time and energy among peoole with vast experience from designing various kinds of languages before we ended up going down the path towards what became YANG. If you poke around the IETF mailin
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   by camoberg 10y ago

   YANG has a distinctly different purpose. XSD, RelaxNG, and some other alternatives were considered during the development of what eventually became YANG back in 2007. We spent quite a bit of time with XML grey beards on this topic in the IE
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   by camoberg 10y ago

   It's a schema language, not a general data encoding language. Widely used for NETCONF[1] and RESTCONF[2]. 1. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6241 2. https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-netco