Subject: Re: [Netconf] RESTCONF modularilty

From: Randy Presuhn <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 00:52:03 -0700 (GMT-07:00)

Hi -

>From: Ladislav Lhotka <[email-masked]>
>Sent: Aug 27, 2014 12:03 AM
>To: Juergen Schoenwaelder <[email-masked]>
>Cc: Netconf <[email-masked]>
>Subject: Re: [Netconf] RESTCONF modularilty
...
>I-JSON is a restricted profile of JSON that tries to ensure
>interoperability, no matter what JSON decoder is used. So it says:
>
>"I-JSON messages SHOULD NOT include numbers which express greater
>magnitude or precision than an IEEE 754 double precision number
>provides, ..."

Which is to say, not all 64-bit integers can be safely
represented, since they require greater precision than
IEEE 754 double precision provides, since the latter uses
11 of its 64 bits for exponent.

Randy