RESTCONF Protocol
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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) A. Bierman
Request for Comments: 8040 YumaWorks
Category: Standards Track M. Bjorklund
ISSN: 2070-1721 Tail-f Systems
K. Watsen
Juniper Networks
January 2017
RESTCONF Protocol
Abstract
This document describes an HTTP-based protocol that provides a
programmatic interface for accessing data defined in YANG, using the
datastore concepts defined in the Network Configuration Protocol
(NETCONF).
Status of This Memo
This is an Internet Standards Track document.
This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has
received public review and has been approved for publication by the
Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Further information on
Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 7841.
Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8040.
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Copyright (c) 2017 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the
document authors. All rights reserved.
This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal
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Bierman, et al. Standards Track [Page 1]
RFC 8040 RESTCONF January 2017
Table of Contents
1. Introduction ....................................................5
1.1. Terminology ................................................5
1.1.1. NETCONF .............................................6
1.1.2. HTTP ................................................6
1.1.3. YANG ................................................7
1.1.4. NETCONF Notifications ...............................7
1.1.5. Terms ...............................................8
1.1.6. URI Template and Examples ..........................10
1.1.7. Tree Diagrams ......................................11
1.2. Subset of NETCONF Functionality ...........................11
1.3. Data-Model-Driven API .....................................12
1.4. Coexistence with NETCONF ..................................13
1.5. RESTCONF Extensibility ....................................14
2. Transport Protocol .............................................15
2.1. Integrity and Confidentiality .............................15
2.2. HTTPS with X.509v3 Certificates ...........................16
2.3. Certificate Validation ....................................16
2.4. Authenticated Server Identity .............................16
2.5. Authenticated Client Identity .............................16
3. Resources ......................................................17
3.1. Root Resource Discovery ...................................18
3.2. RESTCONF Media Types ......................................20
3.3. API Resource ..............................................20
3.3.1. {+restconf}/data ...................................21
3.3.2. {+restconf}/operations .............................22
3.3.3. {+restconf}/yang-library-version ...................22
3.4. Datastore Resource ........................................23
3.4.1. Edit Collision Prevention ..........................23
3.5. Data Resource .............................................24
3.5.1. Timestamp ..........................................25
3.5.2. Entity-Tag .........................................25
3.5.3. Encoding Data Resource Identifiers in the
Request URI ........................................26
3.5.4. Default Handling ...................................29
3.6. Operation Resource ........................................30
3.6.1. Encoding Operation Resource Input Parameters .......31
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