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draft-ietf-netconf-netconf-event-notifications-08
NETCONF                                               A. Gonzalez Prieto
Internet-Draft                                                    VMware
Intended status: Standards Track                                 E. Voit
Expires: August 26, 2018                                   Cisco Systems
                                                                A. Clemm
                                                                  Huawei
                                                       E. Nilsen-Nygaard
                                                             A. Tripathy
                                                           Cisco Systems
                                                       February 22, 2018

                NETCONF Support for Event Notifications
           draft-ietf-netconf-netconf-event-notifications-08

Abstract

   This document provides a NETCONF binding to subscribed notifications
   and to YANG push.

   RFC Editor note: please replace the four references to pre-RFC
   normative drafts with the actual assigned RFC numbers.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   3.  Interleave Capability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   4.  Compatibility with RFC-5277's create-subscription . . . . . .   3
   5.  Mandatory XML, stream and datastore support . . . . . . . . .   3
   6.  Transport connectivity  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     6.1.  Dynamic Subscriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     6.2.  Configured Subscriptions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   7.  Notification Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   8.  Dynamic Subscriptions and RPC Error Responses . . . . . . . .   5
   9.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   10. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   11. Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   Appendix A.  Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     A.1.  Event Stream Discovery  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     A.2.  Dynamic Subscriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     A.3.  Configured Subscriptions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  15
     A.4.  Subscription State Notifications  . . . . . . . . . . . .  20
   Appendix B.  Changes between revisions  . . . . . . . . . . . . .  22
     B.1.  v07 to v08  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  22
     B.2.  v06 to v07  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  22
     B.3.  v05 to v06  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  22
     B.4.  v03 to v04  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  22
     B.5.  v01 to v03  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  23
     B.6.  v00 to v01  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  23
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  23

1.  Introduction

   This document provides a binding for events streamed over the NETCONF
   protocol [RFC6241] as per
   [I-D.draft-ietf-netconf-subscribed-notifications].  In addition, as
   [I-D.ietf-netconf-yang-push] is itself built upon
   [I-D.draft-ietf-netconf-subscribed-notifications], this document
   enables a NETCONF client to request and receive updates from a YANG
   datastore located on a NETCONF server.

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2.  Terminology

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
   document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [RFC2119].

   The following terms are defined in
   [I-D.draft-ietf-netconf-subscribed-notifications]: notification
   message, stream, publisher, receiver, subscriber, subscription,
   configured subscription.

3.  Interleave Capability

   To support multiple subscriptions on a single session, a NETCONF
   publisher MUST support the :interleave capability as defined in
   [RFC5277].  Such support MUST be indicated by the following
   capability: "urn:ietf:params:netconf:capability:interleave:1.0".
   Advertisement of both the :interleave capability and
   "urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-subscribed-notifications" within a
   NETCONF capability exchange MUST indicate that a NETCONF publisher is
   able to receive, process, and respond to NETCONF requests and
   [I-D.draft-ietf-netconf-subscribed-notifications] subscription
   operations.

4.  Compatibility with RFC-5277's create-subscription

   A publisher is allowed to concurrently support both
   [I-D.draft-ietf-netconf-subscribed-notifications] and [RFC5277]'s
   "create-subscription" RPC, however this support MUST NOT happen on a
   single transport NETCONF session.  To accomplish this:

   o  A solution must reply with the [RFC6241] error "operation-not-
      supported" if a "create-subscription" RPC is received on a NETCONF
      session where at least one subscription is currently active.
   o  It is a prohibited to send updates or state change notifications
      for a configured subscription on a NETCONF session where the
      create-subscription RPC has successfully created a subscription.
   o  A "create-subscription" RPC MUST be rejected if a subscription is
      already active across that NETCONF transport session.

5.  Mandatory XML, stream and datastore support

   A NETCONF publisher MUST support XML encoding of RPCs and
   Notifications.

   A NETCONF publisher supporting
   [I-D.draft-ietf-netconf-subscribed-notifications] MUST support the
   "NETCONF" event stream identified in that draft.

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   A NETCONF publisher supporting [I-D.ietf-netconf-yang-push] MUST
   support the operational state datastore as defined by
   [I.D.draft-ietf-netmod-revised-datastores].

6.  Transport connectivity

6.1.  Dynamic Subscriptions

   For dynamic subscriptions, if the NETCONF session involved with the
   "establish-subscription" terminates, the subscription MUST be
   deleted.

6.2.  Configured Subscriptions

   For a configured subscription, there is no guarantee a transport
   session is currently in place with each associated receiver.  In
   cases where a configured subscription has a receiver in the
   connecting state and the protocol configured as NETCONF, but no
   NETCONF transport session exists to that receiver, the publisher MUST
   initiate a transport session via NETCONF call home [RFC8071], section
   4.1 to that receiver.  Until NETCONF connectivity is established and
   a subscription-started state change notification is successfully
   sent, that receiver MUST remain in a status of either "connecting" or
   "timeout".

   If the call home fails because the publisher receives receiver
   credentials which are subsequently declined per [RFC8071],
   Section 4.1, step S5 authentication, then that receiver MUST be
   assigned a "timeout" status.

   If the call home fails to establish for any other reason, the
   publisher MUST NOT progress the receiver to the "active" state.
   Additionally, the publisher SHOULD place the receiver into a
   "timeout" status after a predetermined number of either failed call
   home attempts or NETCONF sessions remotely terminated by the
   receiver.

   NETCONF Transport session connectivity SHOULD be verified via
   Section 4.1, step S7.

   If an active NETCONF session is disconnected but the stop-time of a
   subscription has not been reached, the publisher MUST restart the
   call home process and return the receiver to the "connecting" state.

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7.  Notification Messages

   Notification messages transported over NETCONF will be identical in
   format and content to those encoded using one-way operations defined
   within [RFC5277], section 4.

8.  Dynamic Subscriptions and RPC Error Responses

   Management of dynamic subscriptions occurs via RPCs as defined in
   [I-D.ietf-netconf-yang-push] and
   [I-D.draft-ietf-netconf-subscribed-notifications].  When an RPC error
   occurs, the NETCONF RPC reply MUST include an "rpc-error" element per
   [RFC6241] with the error information populated as follows:

   o  "error-type" of "application".
   o  "error-tag" of "operation-failed".
   o  Optionally, an "error-severity" of "error" (this MAY but does not
      have to be included).
   o  "error-app-tag" with the value being a string that corresponds to
      an identity associated with the error, as defined in
      [I-D.draft-ietf-netconf-subscribed-notifications] section 2.4.6
      for general subscriptions, and [I-D.ietf-netconf-yang-push]
      Appendix A.1, for datastore (YANG-Push) subscriptions.  The tag to
      use depends on the RPC for which the error occurred.  Applicable
      are identities with a base identity of "establish-subscription-
      error" (for error responses to an establish-subscription request),
      "modify- subscription-error" (for error responses to a modify-
      subscription request), "delete-subscription-error" (for error
      responses to a delete-subscription request), "resynch-
      subscription-error" (for error responses to resynch-subscription
      request), or "kill- subscription-error" (for error responses to a
      kill-subscription request), respectively.
   o  In case of error responses to an establish-subscription or modify-
      subscription request: optionally, "error-info" containing XML-
      encoded data with hints regarding parameter settings that might
      lead to successful requests in the future, per yang-data
      definitions "establish-subscription-error-datastore" (for error
      responses to an establish-subscription request) or "modify-
      subscription-error-datastore (for error responses to a modify-
      subscription request), respectively.

      These yang-data that is included in "error-info" SHOULD NOT
      include the optional leaf "error-reason", as such a leaf would be
      redundant with the information that is already placed within the
      error-app-tag.

      In case of an rpc error as a result of a delete-subscription, or a
      kill-subscription, or a resynch-subscription request, no error-

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      info needs to be included, as the subscription-id is the only RPC
      input parameter and no hints regarding RPC input parameters need
      to be provided.

   Note that "error-path" does not need to be included with the "rpc-
   error" element, as subscription errors are generally not associated
   with nodes in the datastore but with the choice of RPC input
   parameters.

9.  Security Considerations

   Notification messages (including state change notifications) are
   never sent before the NETCONF capabilities exchange has completed.

   If a malicious or buggy NETCONF subscriber sends a number of
   "establish-subscription" requests, then these subscriptions
   accumulate and may use up system resources.  In such a situation,
   subscriptions MAY be terminated by terminating the underlying NETCONF
   session.  The publisher MAY also suspend or terminate a subset of the
   active subscriptions on that NETCONF session.

   The NETCONF Authorization Control Model [rfc6536bis] SHOULD be used
   to control and restrict authorization of subscription configuration.

10.  Acknowledgments

   We wish to acknowledge the helpful contributions, comments, and
   suggestions that were received from: Andy Bierman, Yan Gang, Sharon
   Chisholm, Hector Trevino, Peipei Guo, Susan Hares, Tim Jenkins,
   Balazs Lengyel, Martin Bjorklund, Mahesh Jethanandani, Kent Watsen,
   and Guangying Zheng.

11.  Normative References

   [I-D.draft-ietf-netconf-subscribed-notifications]
              Voit, E., Clemm, A., Gonzalez Prieto, A., Tripathy, A.,
              and E. Nilsen-Nygaard, "Custom Subscription to Event
              Streams", draft-ietf-netconf-subscribed-notifications-10
              (work in progress), January 2018.

   [I-D.ietf-netconf-yang-push]
              Clemm, Alexander., Voit, Eric., Gonzalez Prieto, Alberto.,
              Tripathy, A., Nilsen-Nygaard, E., Bierman, A., and B.
              Lengyel, "YANG Datastore Subscription", February 2018,
              <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/
              draft-ietf-netconf-yang-push/>.

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   [I.D.draft-ietf-netmod-revised-datastores]
              Bjorklund, M., Schoenwaelder, J., Shafer, P., Watsen, K.,
              and R. Wilton, "Network Management Datastore
              Architecture", draft-ietf-netmod-revised-datastores-10
              (work in progress), January 2018.

   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2119>.

   [RFC5277]  Chisholm, S. and H. Trevino, "NETCONF Event
              Notifications", RFC 5277, DOI 10.17487/RFC5277, July 2008,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5277>.

   [RFC6241]  Enns, R., Ed., Bjorklund, M., Ed., Schoenwaelder, J., Ed.,
              and A. Bierman, Ed., "Network Configuration Protocol
              (NETCONF)", RFC 6241, DOI 10.17487/RFC6241, June 2011,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6241>.

   [rfc6536bis]
              Bierman, A. and M. Bjorklund, "Network Configuration
              Access Control Module", December 2017,
              <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/
              draft-ietf-netconf-rfc6536bis/>.

   [RFC8071]  Watsen, K., "NETCONF Call Home and RESTCONF Call Home",
              RFC 8071, DOI 10.17487/RFC8071, February 2017,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8071>.

Appendix A.  Examples

A.1.  Event Stream Discovery

   As defined in [I-D.draft-ietf-netconf-subscribed-notifications] an
   event stream exposes a continuous set of events available for
   subscription.  A NETCONF client can retrieve the list of available
   event streams from a NETCONF publisher using the "get" operation
   against the top-level container "/streams" defined in
   [I-D.draft-ietf-netconf-subscribed-notifications].

   The following example illustrates the retrieval of the list of
   available event streams using the "get" operation.

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<rpc message-id="101"
  xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:netconf:base:1.0">
  <get>
    <filter type="subtree">
      <streams
     xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-subscribed-notifications"/>
    </filter>
  </get>
</rpc>

                       Figure 1: Get streams request

   After such a request, the NETCONF publisher returns a list of event
   streams available.

A.2.  Dynamic Subscriptions

A.2.1.  Establishing Dynamic Subscriptions

   The following figure shows two successful "establish-subscription"
   RPC requests as per
   [I-D.draft-ietf-netconf-subscribed-notifications].  The first request
   is given a subscription identifier of 22, the second, an identifier
   of 23.

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      +------------+                 +-----------+
      | Subscriber |                 | Publisher |
      +------------+                 +-----------+
            |                              |
            |    Capability Exchange       |
            |<---------------------------->|
            |                              |
            |                              |
            |    establish-subscription    |
            |----------------------------->|  (a)
            | RPC Reply: OK, id = 22       |
            |<-----------------------------|  (b)
            |                              |
            | notification message (for 22)|
            |<-----------------------------|
            |                              |
            |                              |
            |    establish-subscription    |
            |----------------------------->|
            | RPC Reply: OK, id = 23       |
            |<-----------------------------|
            |                              |
            |                              |
            | notification message (for 22)|
            |<-----------------------------|
            | notification message (for 23)|
            |<-----------------------------|
            |                              |

          Figure 2: Multiple subscriptions over a NETCONF session

   To provide examples of the information being transported, example
   messages for interactions (a) and (b) in Figure 2 are detailed below:

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  <rpc netconf:message-id="102"
    xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:netconf:base:1.0">
    <establish-subscription
      xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-subscribed-notifications">
      <stream>
        <name>NETCONF</name>
        <xpath-filter xmlns:ex="http://example.com/events">
             /ex:foo
        </xpath-filter>
      </stream>
      <dscp>
         10
      </dscp>
    </establish-subscription>
  </rpc>

               Figure 3: establish-subscription request (a)

   As NETCONF publisher was able to fully satisfy the request (a), the
   publisher sends the subscription identifier of the accepted
   subscription within message (b):

  <rpc-reply message-id="102"
    xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:netconf:base:1.0">
    <identifier
      xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-subscribed-notifications">
      22
    </identifier>
  </rpc-reply>

               Figure 4: establish-subscription success (b)

   If the NETCONF publisher had not been able to fully satisfy the
   request, or subscriber has no authorization to establish the
   subscription, the publisher would have sent an RPC error response.
   For instance, if the "dscp" value of 10 asserted by the subscriber in
   Figure 3 proved unacceptable, the publisher may have returned:

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 <rpc-reply message-id="102"
   xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:netconf:base:1.0">
   <rpc-error>
    <error-type>application</error-type>
    <error-tag>operation-failed</error-tag>
    <error-severity>error</error-severity>
    <error-app-tag>
     dscp-unavailable
    </error-app-tag>
    <error-info>
     <establish-subscription-error-datastore
      xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-subscribed-notifications">
      <dscp>
       100
      </dscp>
    </error-info>
   </rpc-error>
 </rpc-reply>

             Figure 5: an unsuccessful establish subscription

   The subscriber can use this information in future attempts to
   establish a subscription.

A.2.2.  Modifying Dynamic Subscriptions

   An existing subscription may be modified.  The following exchange
   shows a negotiation of such a modification via several exchanges
   between a subscriber and a publisher.  This negotiation consists of a
   failed RPC modification request/response, followed by a successful
   one.

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      +------------+                 +-----------+
      | Subscriber |                 | Publisher |
      +------------+                 +-----------+
            |                              |
            | notification message (for 23)|
            |<-----------------------------|
            |                              |
            | modify-subscription (id = 23)|
            |----------------------------->|  (c)
            | RPC error (with hint)        |
            |<-----------------------------|  (d)
            |                              |
            | modify-subscription (id = 23)|
            |----------------------------->|
            | RPC Reply: OK                |
            |<-----------------------------|
            |                              |
            | notification message (for 23)|
            |<-----------------------------|
            |                              |

   Figure 6: Interaction model for successful subscription modification

   If the subscription being modified in Figure 6 is a datastore
   subscription as per [I-D.ietf-netconf-yang-push], the modification
   request made in (c) may look like that shown in Figure 7.  As can be
   seen, the modifications being attempted are the application of a new
   xpath filter as well as the setting of a new periodic time interval.

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<rpc message-id="303"
  xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:netconf:base:1.0">
  <modify-subscription
       xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-subscribed-notifications"
       xmlns:yp="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-yang-push">
    <yp:datastore>
      <yp:xpath-filter xmlns="http://example.com/datastore">
        /interfaces-state/interface/oper-status
      </yp:xpath-filter>
      <yp:periodic>
        <yp:period>500</yp:period>
      </yp:periodic>
    </yp:datastore>
    <identifier>
      23
    </identifier>
  </modify-subscription>
</rpc>

              Figure 7: Subscription modification request (c)

   If the NETCONF publisher can satisfy both changes, the publisher
   sends a positive result for the RPC.  If the NETCONF publisher cannot
   satisfy either of the proposed changes, the publisher sends an RPC
   error response (d).  The following is an example RPC error response
   for (d) which includes a hint.  This hint is an alternative time
   period value which might have resulted in a successful modification:

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   <rpc-reply message-id="303"
     xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:netconf:base:1.0">
     <rpc-error>
       <error-type>application</error-type>
       <error-tag>operation-failed</error-tag>
       <error-severity>error</error-severity>
       <error-app-tag>
           period-unsupported
       </error-message>
       <error-info
          xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-yang-push">
          <modify-subscription-error-datastore>
            <period-hint>
                3000
            </period-hint>
          </modify-subscription-error-datastore>
       </error-info>
     </rpc-error>
   </rpc-reply>

            Figure 8: Modify subscription failure with Hint (d)

A.2.3.  Deleting Dynamic Subscriptions

   The following demonstrates deleting a subscription.

  <rpc message-id="103"
    xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:netconf:base:1.0">
    <delete-subscription
      xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-subscribed-notifications">
      <identifier>22</identifier>
    </delete-subscription>
  </rpc>

                       Figure 9: Delete subscription

   If the NETCONF publisher can satisfy the request, the publisher
   replies with success to the RPC request.

   If the NETCONF publisher cannot satisfy the request, the publisher
   sends an error-rpc element indicating the modification didn't work.
   Figure 10 shows a valid response for existing valid subscription
   identifier, but that subscription identifier was created on a
   different NETCONF transport session:

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   <rpc-reply message-id="103"
     xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:netconf:base:1.0">
     <rpc-error>
       <error-type>application</error-type>
       <error-tag>operation-failed</error-tag>
       <error-severity>error</error-severity>
       <error-app-tag>
           no-such-subscription
       </error-app-tag>
     </rpc-error>
   </rpc-reply>

                Figure 10: Unsuccessful delete subscription

A.3.  Configured Subscriptions

   Configured subscriptions may be established, modified, and deleted
   using configuration operations against the top-level subtree of
   [I-D.draft-ietf-netconf-subscribed-notifications] or
   [I-D.ietf-netconf-yang-push].

   In this section, we present examples of how to manage the
   configuration subscriptions using a NETCONF client.

A.3.1.  Creating Configured Subscriptions

   For subscription creation, a NETCONF client may send:

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<rpc message-id="201"
    xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:netconf:base:1.0"
    xmlns:nc="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:netconf:base:1.0">
  <edit-config>
    <target>
      <running/>
    </target>
    <subscriptions
      xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-subscribed-notifications">
      <subscription>
        <identifier>22</identifier>
        <encoding>encode-xml</encoding>
        <stream>
          <name>NETCONF</name>
          <receiver>
            <address>1.2.3.4</address>
            <port>1234</port>
          </receiver>
        </stream>
      </subscription>
    </subscriptions>
  </edit-config>
</rpc>

                Figure 11: Create a configured subscription

   If the request is accepted, the publisher will indicate this.  If the
   request is not accepted because the publisher cannot serve it, no
   configuration is changed.  In this case the publisher may reply:

      <rpc-reply message-id="201"
                 xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:netconf:base:1.0">
          <rpc-error>
              <error-type>application</error-type>
              <error-tag>resource-denied</error-tag>
              <error-severity>error</error-severity>
              <error-message xml:lang="en">
                  Temporarily the publisher cannot serve this
                  subscription due to the current workload.
              </error-message>
          </rpc-error>
      </rpc-reply>

   Figure 12: Response to a failed configured subscription establishment

   After a subscription has been created, NETCONF connectivity to each
   receiver's IP address and port will be established if it does not
   already exist.  This will be accomplished via [RFC8071].

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   The following figure shows the interaction model for the successful
   creation of a configured subscription.

    +----------+                 +-----------+     +---------+
    |Config Ops|                 | Publisher |     | 1.2.3.4 |
    +----------+                 +-----------+     +---------+
         |                            |                |
         |    Capability Exchange     |                |
         |<-------------------------->|                |
         |                            |                |
         |                            |                |
         |        Edit-config         |                |
         |--------------------------->|                |
         |       RPC Reply: OK        |                |
         |<---------------------------|                |
         |                            |   Call Home    |
         |                            |<-------------->|
         |                            |                |
         |                            |  subscription- |
         |                            |  started       |
         |                            |--------------->|
         |                            |                |
         |                            |  notification  |
         |                            |  message       |
         |                            |--------------->|

         Figure 13: Interaction model for configured subscription
                               establishment

A.3.2.  Modifying Configured Subscriptions

   Configured subscriptions can be modified using configuration
   operations against the top-level container "/subscriptions".

   For example, the subscription established in the previous section
   could be modified as follows, here a adding a second receiver:

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   <rpc message-id="202"
          xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:netconf:base:1.0"
          xmlns:nc="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:netconf:base:1.0">
     <edit-config>
       <target>
         <running/>
       </target>
       <subscriptions
      xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-subscribed-notifications">
         <subscription>
           <identifier>
             1922
           </identifier>
           <receiver>
             <address>
               1.2.3.5
             </address>
             <port>
               1234
             </port>
           </receiver>
         </subscription>
       </subscriptions>
     </edit-config>
   </rpc>

                 Figure 14: Modify configured subscription

   If the request is accepted, the publisher will indicate success.  The
   result is that the interaction model described in Figure 13 may be
   extended as follows.

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 +----------+                 +-----------+     +---------+  +---------+
 |Config Ops|                 | Publisher |     | 1.2.3.4 |  | 1.2.3.5 |
 +----------+                 +-----------+     +---------+  +---------+
       |                            |  notification  |            |
       |                            |  message       |            |
       |                            |--------------->|            |
       |        Edit-config         |                |            |
       |--------------------------->|                |            |
       |       RPC Reply: OK        |                |            |
       |<---------------------------|                |            |
       |                            |  subscription- |            |
       |                            |  started       |            |
       |                            |---------------------------->|
       |                            |                |            |
       |                            |  notification  |            |
       |                            |  message       |            |
       |                            |--------------->|            |
       |                            |---------------------------->|
       |                            |                |            |

   Figure 15: Interaction model for configured subscription modification

   Note in the above that in the specific example above, modifying a
   configured subscription actually resulted in "subscription-started"
   notification.  And because of an existing NETCONF session, no
   additional call home was needed.  Also note that if the edit of the
   configuration had impacted the filter, a separate modify-subscription
   would have been required for the original receiver.

A.3.3.  Deleting Configured Subscriptions

   Configured subscriptions can be deleted using configuration
   operations against the top-level container "/subscriptions".
   Deleting the subscription above would result in the following flow
   impacting all active receivers.

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 +----------+                 +-----------+     +---------+  +---------+
 |Config Ops|                 | Publisher |     | 1.2.3.4 |  | 1.2.3.5 |
 +----------+                 +-----------+     +---------+  +---------+
       |                            |                |            |
       |                            |  notification  |            |
       |                            |  message       |            |
       |                            |--------------->|            |
       |                            |---------------------------->|
       |                            |                |            |
       |        Edit-config         |                |            |
       |--------------------------->|                |            |
       |       RPC Reply: OK        |                |            |
       |<---------------------------|                |            |
       |                            |  subscription- |            |
       |                            |  terminated    |            |
       |                            |--------------->|            |
       |                            |---------------------------->|
       |                            |                |            |

     Figure 16: Interaction model for configured subscription deletion

A.4.  Subscription State Notifications

   A publisher will send subscription state notifications according to
   the definitions within
   [I-D.draft-ietf-netconf-subscribed-notifications]).

A.4.1.  subscription-started and subscription-modified

   A "subscription-started" over NETCONF encoded in XML would look like:

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 <notification
   xmlns=" urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:netconf:notification:1.0">
   <eventTime>2007-09-01T10:00:00Z</eventTime>
   <subscription-started
     xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-subscribed-notifications"/>
     <identifier>39</identifier>
     <encoding>encode-xml</encoding>
     <stream>
       <name>NETCONF</name>
       <xpath-filter xmlns:ex="http://example.com/events">
            /ex:foo
       </xpath-filter>
     </stream>
   </subscription-started>
 </notification>

      Figure 17: subscription-started subscription state notification

   The "subscription-modified" is identical to Figure 17, with just the
   word "started" being replaced by "modified".

A.4.2.  subscription-completed, subscription-resumed, and replay-
        complete

   A "subscription-completed" would look like:

  <notification
    xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:netconf:notification:1.0">
    <eventTime>2007-09-01T10:00:00Z</eventTime>
    <subscription-completed
      xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-subscribed-notifications">
      <identifier>39</identifier>
    </subscription-completed>
  </notification>

           Figure 18: subscription-completed notification in XML

   The "subscription-resumed" and "replay-complete" are virtually
   identical, with "subscription-completed" simply being replaced by
   "subscription-resumed" and "replay-complete" in both encodings.

A.4.3.  subscription-terminated and subscription-suspended

   A "subscription-terminated" would look like:

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  <notification
    xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:netconf:notification:1.0">
    <eventTime>2007-09-01T10:00:00Z</eventTime>
    <subscription-terminated
      xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-subscribed-notifications">
      <identifier>39</identifier>
      <error-id>
         suspension-timeout
      </error-id>
    </subscription-terminated>
  </notification>

    Figure 19: subscription-terminated subscription state notification

   The "subscription-suspended" is virtually identical, with
   "subscription-terminated" simply being replaced by "subscription-
   suspended".

Appendix B.  Changes between revisions

   (To be removed by RFC editor prior to publication)

B.1.  v07 to v08

   o  Tweaks and clarification on :interleave.

B.2.  v06 to v07

   o  XML encoding and operational datastore mandatory.
   o  Error mechanisms and examples updated.

B.3.  v05 to v06

   o  Moved examples to appendices
   o  All examples rewritten based on namespace learnings
   o  Normative text consolidated in front
   o  Removed all mention of JSON
   o  Call home process detailed
   o  Note: this is a major revision attempting to cover those comments
      received from two week review.

B.4.  v03 to v04

   o  Added additional detail to "configured subscriptions"
   o  Added interleave capability
   o  Adjusted terminology to that in draft-ietf-netconf-subscribed-
      notifications
   o  Corrected namespaces in examples

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B.5.  v01 to v03

   o  Text simplifications throughout
   o  v02 had no meaningful changes

B.6.  v00 to v01

   o  Added Call Home in solution for configured subscriptions.
   o  Clarified support for multiple subscription on a single session.
      No need to support multiple create-subscription.
   o  Added mapping between terminology in yang-push and [RFC6241] (the
      one followed in this document).
   o  Editorial improvements.

Authors' Addresses

   Alberto Gonzalez Prieto
   VMware

   Email: agonzalezpri@vmware.com

   Eric Voit
   Cisco Systems

   Email: evoit@cisco.com

   Alexander Clemm
   Huawei

   Email: ludwig@clemm.org

   Einar Nilsen-Nygaard
   Cisco Systems

   Email: einarnn@cisco.com

   Ambika Prasad Tripathy
   Cisco Systems

   Email: ambtripa@cisco.com

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