NETCONF B. Lengyel
Internet-Draft Ericsson
Intended status: Standards Track A. Clemm
Expires: July 10, 2020 Futurewei
B. Claise
Cisco Systems, Inc.
January 7, 2020

Generic YANG-related System Capabilities and YANG-Push Notification Capabilities
draft-ietf-netconf-notification-capabilities-09

Abstract

This document proposes two YANG modules. The module ietf-system-capabilities provides a structure that can be used to specify any YANG related system capability.

The module ietf-notification-capabilities allows a publisher to specify capabilities related to "Subscription to YANG Datastores" (YANG-Push). It proposes to use YANG Instance Data to document this information and make it already available at implementation-time, but also allow it to be reported at run-time.

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Table of Contents

1. Terminology

The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in BCP 14 [RFC2119] [RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all capitals, as shown here.

The terms YANG-Push, On-change subscription and Periodic subscription are used as defined in [RFC8641]

The terms Subscriber, Publisher and Receiver are used as defined in [RFC8639]

The term Server is used as defined in [RFC8342]

On-change Notification Capability: The capability of the publisher to send on-change notifications for a specific datastore or a specific data node.

Implementation-time information: Information about the publisher's or server's behavior that is made available during the implementation of the publisher/server, available from a source other then a running server.

Run-time information: Information about the publisher's or server's behavior that is available from the running server via management protocols such as NETCONF [RFC6241] or RESTCONF [RFC8040].

2. Introduction

Systems implementing a server and/or a publisher often have capabilities that are not defined by the YANG model itself. There is a need to publish this capability information as it part of the contract between the server and client. Examples include: maximum size of data that can be stored or transferred, information about counters (whether a node supports on-change telemetry), etc. Such capabilities are often dependent on a vendor's implementation or the available resources at deployment. Many such capabilities are specific to either the complete system, individual YANG datastores or specific parts of the YANG schema, or even to individual data nodes. It is a goal of this document to provide a common way of representing such capabilities in a format that is:

2.1. YANG-Push Notification Capabilities

A specific case where we need to specify capabilities is the YANG-Push functionality. As defined in [RFC8641] a publisher may allow subscribers to subscribe to updates from a datastore and subsequently push such update notifications to the receiver. Notifications may be sent periodically or on-change (more or less immediately after each change).

A publisher supporting YANG-Push has a number of capabilities defined in [RFC8641] that are often determined during the implementation of the publisher. These include:

Additional capabilities if the optional on-change feature is supported include:

Publishers have limitations in how many update notifications and how many datastore node updates they can send out in a certain time-period.

Publishers might not support periodic subscriptions to all datastores.

In some cases, a publisher supporting on-change notifications will not be able to push updates for some object types on-change. Reasons for this might be that the value of the datastore node changes frequently (e.g., in-octets counter), that small object changes are frequent and irrelevant to the receiver (e.g., a temperature gauge changing 0.1 degrees within a predetermined and acceptable range), or that the implementation is not capable of on-change notification for a particular object. In those cases, it will be important for subscriber applications to have a way to identify which objects on-change notifications are supported and for which ones not.

Faced with the reality that support for on-change notification does not mean that such notifications will be sent for any specific data node, subscriber/management applications can not rely on the on-change functionality unless the subscriber has some means to identify which objects on-change notifications are supported. YANG models are meant to be used as an interface contract. Without identification of the data nodes actually supporting on-change, this contract would be incomplete.

Clients of a server, subscribers to a publisher need a method to gather capability information.

Implementation-time information is needed by Network Management System (NMS) implementers. A NMS implementation that wants to support notifications, needs the information about on-change notification capability. If the information is not documented in a way available to the NMS designer, but only as instance data from the network node once it is deployed, the NMS implementation will be delayed, because it has to wait for the network node to be ready. In addition, the assumption that all NMS implementers will have a correctly configured network node available to retrieve data from is an expensive proposition and may not always hold. (An NMS may need to be able to handle many dozens of network node types.) Often a fully functional NMS is a requirement for introducing a new network node type into a network, so delaying NMS readiness effectively also delays the time at which a new network node type can be introduced into the network.

Implementation-time information is needed by system integrators. When introducing a network node type into their network, operators often need to integrate the node type into their own management system. The NMS may have management functions that depend on on-change notifications. The network operator needs to plan his management practices and NMS implementation before he even decides to buy the specific network node type. Moreover the decision to buy the node type sometimes depends on these management possibilities.

Run-time information is needed:

3. Providing System Capability Information

Capability information is represented by instance-data based on one or more "capability defining YANG modules". This allows a user to discover capabilities both at implementation-time and run-time.

The module ietf-system-capabilities is defined to provide a structure that can be used to specify any YANG related system capability.

The module ietf-notification-capabilities is defined to allow a publisher to specify capabilities related to "Subscription to YANG Datastores" (YANG-Push) augmenting ietf-system-capabilities.

4. System Capabilities Model

The module ietf-system-capabilities is defined to provide a structure that can be used to specify any YANG related system capability.

Capability values can be specified on system/publisher level, datastore level or for specific data nodes (and their contained sub-tree) of a specific datastore. Capability values on a smaller, more specific part of the system's data always override more generic values.

This module itself does not contain any capabilities. It SHOULD be used by other modules to augment-in specific capability information. Every set of such capabilities SHOULD be wrapped in a container under the augment statement to cleanly separate different groups of capabilities. These "wrapper containers" SHALL be augmented in at /sysc:system-capabilities and /sysc:system-capabilities/sysc:datastore-capabilities/sysc:per-node-capabilities.

Note: The solution is usable for both NMDA and non-NMDA systems. For non-NMDA servers/publishers config=false data is considered as if it was part of the running datastore.

4.1. Tree Diagram

The following tree diagram [RFC8340] provides an overview of the data model.

module: ietf-system-capabilities
  +--ro system-capabilities
     +--ro datastore-capabilities* [datastore]
        +--ro datastore        -> /yanglib:yang-library/datastore/name
        +--ro per-node-capabilities* [node-selector]
           +--ro node-selector    nacm:node-instance-identifier

4.2. YANG Module

<CODE BEGINS> file "ietf-system-capabilities@2020-01-02.yang"

module ietf-system-capabilities {
  yang-version 1.1;
  namespace
    "urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-system-capabilities";
  prefix sysc;

  import ietf-netconf-acm  {
    prefix nacm;
    description
       "The module ietf-netconf-acm is OPTIONAL to implement.";
  }

  import ietf-yang-library {
    prefix yanglib;
    description "The module ietf-yang-library is REQUIRED to
      be implemented. Revision 2019-01-04 or a
      revision derived from it is REQUIRED.";
  }

  organization
    "IETF NETCONF (Network Configuration) Working Group";
  contact
    "WG Web:   <https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/netconf/>
     WG List:  <mailto:netconf@ietf.org>

     Editor:   Balazs Lengyel
               <mailto:balazs.lengyel@ericsson.com>";
  description
    "This module specifies a module intended to contain system 
      capabilities. System capabilities may include capabilities of a 
      NETCONF or RESTCONF server or a notification publisher.

     This module does not contain any specific capabilities it only 
     provides a structure where containers containing the actual 
     capabilities should be augmented in.
     
     Capability values can be specified on system level,
     datastore level or for specific data nodes (and their contained
     sub-tree) of a specific datastore.
     If a capability is specified on multiple levels, the
     specification on a more specific level overrides more
     generic capability specifications; thus
     - a system level specification is overridden by any
     other specification
     - a datastore level specification (with a node-selector '/') is
     overridden by a specification with a more specific node-selector.
     - a specification for a specific datastore and node-selector
     is overridden by a specification for the same datastore with
     a node-selector that describes more levels of containing lists
     and containers. 
     It is not allowed to have multiple node selectors which   
     - are defined for the same datastore AND
     - have the same number of containment levels AND
     - select an overlapping set of nodes.

     To find a capability value for a specific data node in a
     specific datastore the user SHALL
     1) consider the system level capabilities under the
     system-capabilities container if the
     capability value is specified.
     2) search for a datastore-capabilities list entry for
     the specific datastore.
     3) within that datastore entry search for a
     per-node-capabilities entry that specifies the specific
     capability and that has the node-selector selecting the
     specific data node and that specifies the most levels of
     containing containers and lists.
     4) If no entries are found in the previous steps the
     publisher is not capable of providing a value because
     it is unknown, the capability is changing for some reason,
     there is no specified limit etc. In this case the
     system's behavior is unspecified.

     The key words 'MUST', 'MUST NOT', 'REQUIRED', 'SHALL',
     'SHALL NOT', 'SHOULD', 'SHOULD NOT', 'RECOMMENDED',
     'NOT RECOMMENDED', 'MAY', and 'OPTIONAL' in this document
     are to be interpreted as described in BCP 14 (RFC 2119)
     (RFC 8174) when, and only when, they appear in all
     capitals, as shown here.

     Copyright (c) 2020 IETF Trust and the persons identified as
     authors of the code.  All rights reserved.

     Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or
     without modification, is permitted pursuant to, and subject
     to the license terms contained in, the Simplified BSD License
     set forth in Section 4.c of the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions
     Relating to IETF Documents
     (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info).

     This version of this YANG module is part of RFC XXXX
     (https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfcXXXX); see the RFC itself
     for full legal notices.";

  revision 2020-01-02 {
    description
      "Initial version";
    reference
      "RFC XXX: YANG-Push Notification Capabilities";
  }

  container system-capabilities {
    config false;
    description "System capabilities.
      Capability values specified here at the system level
      are valid for all datastores and
      are used when the capability is not specified on the
      datastore level or for specific data nodes.";

    // augmentation point for system level capabilities  
      
    list datastore-capabilities {
      key datastore;

      description "Capabilities values per datastore.
        For non-NMDA servers/publishers config=false data is
        considered as if it was part of the running datastore.";

      leaf datastore {
        type leafref {
          path /yanglib:yang-library/yanglib:datastore/yanglib:name;
        }
        description "The datastore for which capabilities are defined.
          Only individual datastores can be specified
          e.g., ds:conventional is not allowed.";
      }

      list per-node-capabilities {
        key "node-selector";
        description
          "Each list entry specifies capabilities
           for the selected data nodes. The same capabilities apply for
           the data nodes in the subtree below them unless another list
           entry with a more specific node selector specifying the same 
           capability is present.";

        leaf node-selector {
          type nacm:node-instance-identifier;
          description
            "Selects the data nodes for which capabilities are
             specified. The special value '/' denotes all data nodes
             in the datastore.
             The system SHOULD order list entries according to
             the tree structure of the data models to make
             reading/parsing the data more simple.";
        }
        
        // augmentation point for datastore or data node level 
        // capabilities          
      }
    }
  }
}
            

<CODE ENDS>

5. Notification Capabilities Model

The YANG module ietf-notification-capabilities is defined to provide YANG-Push related capability information.

5.1. Tree Diagram

The following tree diagram [RFC8340] provides an overview of the data model.

module: ietf-notification-capabilities
  augment /sysc:system-capabilities:
    +--ro subscription-capabilities
       +--ro (update-period)?
       |  +--:(minimum-update-period)
       |  |  +--ro minimum-update-period?        uint32
       |  +--:(supported-update-period)
       |     +--ro supported-update-period*      uint32
       +--ro max-objects-per-update?             uint32
       +--ro minimum-dampening-period?           uint32 {yp:on-change}?
       +--ro on-change-supported?                notification-support 
       |                                                {yp:on-change}?
       +--ro periodic-notifications-supported?   notification-support
       +--ro supported-excluded-change-type*     union {yp:on-change}?

  augment /sysc:system-capabilities/sysc:datastore-capabilities/ +
    |                                       sysc:per-node-capabilities:
    +--ro subscription-capabilities
       +--ro (update-period)?
       |  +--:(minimum-update-period)
       |  |  +--ro minimum-update-period?        uint32
       |  +--:(supported-update-period)
       |     +--ro supported-update-period*      uint32
       +--ro max-objects-per-update?             uint32
       +--ro minimum-dampening-period?           uint32 {yp:on-change}?
       +--ro on-change-supported?                notification-support 
       |                                                {yp:on-change}?
       +--ro periodic-notifications-supported?   notification-support
       +--ro supported-excluded-change-type*     union {yp:on-change}?                            

5.2. YANG Module

<CODE BEGINS> file "ietf-notification-capabilities@2020-01-02.yang"

module ietf-notification-capabilities {
  yang-version 1.1;
  namespace
    "urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-notification-capabilities";
  prefix inc;

  import ietf-yang-push    {
    prefix yp;
    description
      "The module ietf-yang-push is REQUIRED to be 
        implemented.";
  }
  
  import ietf-system-capabilities {
    prefix sysc;
    description
      "The module ietf-system-capabilities is REQUIRED to be 
        implemented.";
  }
  
  organization
    "IETF NETCONF (Network Configuration) Working Group";
  contact
    "WG Web:   <https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/netconf/>
     WG List:  <mailto:netconf@ietf.org>

     Editor:   Balazs Lengyel
               <mailto:balazs.lengyel@ericsson.com>";
  description
    "This module specifies YANG-Push related publisher capabilities.

     The module contains
     - specification of which data nodes support on-change or periodic
     notifications.
     - capabilities related to the throughput of notification data the
     publisher can support. (Note that for a specific subscription
     the publisher MAY still allow only longer periods or smaller
     updates depending on e.g., actual load conditions.)

     Capability values can be specified on system/publisher level,
     datastore level or for specific data nodes (and their contained
     sub-tree) of a specific datastore, as defined in the 
     ietf-system-capabilities module.

     If, different data nodes covered by a single subscription
     have different values for a specific capability, then using values
     that are only acceptable for some of these data nodes, but not for
     others, may result in the rejection of the subscription.

     The key words 'MUST', 'MUST NOT', 'REQUIRED', 'SHALL',
     'SHALL NOT', 'SHOULD', 'SHOULD NOT', 'RECOMMENDED',
     'NOT RECOMMENDED', 'MAY', and 'OPTIONAL' in this document
     are to be interpreted as described in BCP 14 (RFC 2119)
     (RFC 8174) when, and only when, they appear in all
     capitals, as shown here.

     Copyright (c) 2020 IETF Trust and the persons identified as
     authors of the code.  All rights reserved.

     Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or
     without modification, is permitted pursuant to, and subject
     to the license terms contained in, the Simplified BSD License
     set forth in Section 4.c of the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions
     Relating to IETF Documents
     (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info).

     This version of this YANG module is part of RFC XXXX
     (https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfcXXXX); see the RFC itself
     for full legal notices.";

  revision 2020-01-02 {
    description
      "Initial version";
    reference
      "RFC XXX: YANG-Push Notification Capabilities";
  }

  grouping subscription-capabilities {
    description  "Capabilities related to YANG-Push subscriptions 
      and notifications";
      
    container subscription-capabilities {
      description "Capabilities related to YANG-Push subscriptions 
        and notifications";      

      typedef notification-support {
        type enumeration {
          enum no-notifications-supported {
            description "The publisher is not capable of sending any
              notifications for the relevant scope and subscription
              type." ;
          }
          enum notifications-for-config-changes-supported {
            description "The publisher is capable of sending
              notifications for config=true nodes, but not
              for config=false nodes for the relevant scope
              and subscription type." ;
          }
          enum notifications-for-state-changes-supported {
            description "The publisher is capable of sending
              notifications for config=false nodes, but not
              for config=true nodes for the relevant scope
              and subscription type." ;
          }
          enum notifications-for-all-changes-supported {
            description "The publisher is capable of sending
              notifications for both config=false and config=true
              nodes for the relevant scope and subscription type." ;
          }
        }
        description "Type for defining whether on-change or
          periodic notifications are supported for no, only config=true,
          only config=false or all data nodes.";
      }

      choice update-period {
        description "Supported update period value or values for
          periodic subscriptions.";
        leaf minimum-update-period {
          type uint32;
          units "centiseconds";
          description "Indicates the minimal update period that is
            supported for a periodic subscription.
            A periodic subscription to the selected data nodes must
            specify a value that is at least as large or greater than
            this";
          reference
            "The period leaf in RFC 8641 ietf-yang-push YANG module";
        }

        leaf-list supported-update-period {
          type uint32;
          units "centiseconds";
          description "Supported update period values for a
            periodic subscription.
            A periodic subscription to the selected data nodes must
            specify one of the values in the list; other values
            are not supported.";
          reference
            "The period leaf in RFC 8641 ietf-yang-push YANG module";
        }
      }

      leaf max-objects-per-update {
        type uint32 {
              range "1..max";
        }
        description
          "Maximum number of objects that can be sent
           in an update for the selected data nodes.";
      }

      leaf minimum-dampening-period {
        if-feature yp:on-change;
        type uint32;
        units "centiseconds";
        description
          "The minimum dampening period supported for on-change
           subscriptions for the selected data nodes.";
      }

      leaf on-change-supported {
        if-feature yp:on-change;
        type notification-support;
        description
          "Specifies whether the publisher is capable of
           sending on-change notifications for the selected
           data store or data nodes and the subtree below them.";
      }

      leaf periodic-notifications-supported {
        type notification-support;
        description
          "Specifies whether the publisher is capable of
           sending periodic notifications for the selected
           data store or data nodes and the subtree below them.";
      }

      leaf-list supported-excluded-change-type {
        if-feature yp:on-change;
        type union {
          type enumeration {
            enum none {
              description "None of the change types can be excluded.";
            }
            enum all {
              description
                "Any combination of change types can be excluded.";
            }
          }
          type yp:change-type;
        }
        description "The change types that can be excluded in
          YANG-Push subscriptions.";
      }
    }
  }

  augment /sysc:system-capabilities {
    description "Add system level capabilities";
    uses subscription-capabilities {
      refine subscription-capabilities/supported-excluded-change-type {
        default none;
      }
    }    
  }
  
  augment "/sysc:system-capabilities/sysc:datastore-capabilities" +
      "/sysc:per-node-capabilities" {
    description "Add datastore and node level capabilities";
    uses subscription-capabilities {
      refine subscription-capabilities/supported-excluded-change-type {
        default none;
      }
    }    
  }  
}
            

<CODE ENDS>

6. Security Considerations

The YANG modules specified in this document define a schema for data that is designed to be accessed via network management protocols such as NETCONF [RFC6241] or RESTCONF [RFC8040]. The lowest NETCONF layer is the secure transport layer, and the mandatory-to-implement secure transport is Secure Shell (SSH) [RFC6242]. The lowest RESTCONF layer is HTTPS, and the mandatory-to-implement secure transport is TLS [RFC8446].

The Network Configuration Access Control Model (NACM) [RFC8341] provides the means to restrict access for particular NETCONF or RESTCONF users to a preconfigured subset of all available NETCONF or RESTCONF protocol operations and content.

All protocol-accessible data nodes are read-only and cannot be modified. The data in these modules is not security sensitive. Access control may be configured, to avoid exposing the read-only data.

When that data is in file format, data should be protected against modification or unauthorized access using normal file handling mechanisms.

7. IANA Considerations

7.1. The IETF XML Registry

This document registers two URIs in the IETF XML registry [RFC3688]. Following the format in [RFC3688], the following registrations are requested:

   URI: urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-system-capabilities
   Registrant Contact: The NETCONF WG of the IETF.
   XML: N/A, the requested URI is an XML namespace.
        

   URI: urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-notification-capabilities
   Registrant Contact: The NETCONF WG of the IETF.
   XML: N/A, the requested URI is an XML namespace.
        

7.2. The YANG Module Names Registry

This document registers two YANG modules in the YANG Module Names registry. Following the format in [RFC7950], the the following registrations are requested:

  name:       ietf-system-capabilities
  namespace:  urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-system-capabilities
  prefix:     sysc
  reference:  RFC XXXX
        

  name:       ietf-notification-capabilities
  namespace:  urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-notification-capabilities
  prefix:     inc
  reference:  RFC XXXX
        

8. References

8.1. Normative References

[I-D.ietf-netmod-yang-instance-file-format] Lengyel, B. and B. Claise, "YANG Instance Data File Format", Internet-Draft draft-ietf-netmod-yang-instance-file-format-06, December 2019.
[RFC6241] Enns, R., Bjorklund, M., Schoenwaelder, J. and A. Bierman, "Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF)", RFC 6241, DOI 10.17487/RFC6241, June 2011.
[RFC6242] Wasserman, M., "Using the NETCONF Protocol over Secure Shell (SSH)", RFC 6242, DOI 10.17487/RFC6242, June 2011.
[RFC7950] Bjorklund, M., "The YANG 1.1 Data Modeling Language", RFC 7950, DOI 10.17487/RFC7950, August 2016.
[RFC8040] Bierman, A., Bjorklund, M. and K. Watsen, "RESTCONF Protocol", RFC 8040, DOI 10.17487/RFC8040, January 2017.
[RFC8342] Bjorklund, M., Schoenwaelder, J., Shafer, P., Watsen, K. and R. Wilton, "Network Management Datastore Architecture (NMDA)", RFC 8342, DOI 10.17487/RFC8342, March 2018.
[RFC8446] Rescorla, E., "The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.3", RFC 8446, DOI 10.17487/RFC8446, August 2018.
[RFC8639] Voit, E., Clemm, A., Gonzalez Prieto, A., Nilsen-Nygaard, E. and A. Tripathy, "Subscription to YANG Notifications", RFC 8639, DOI 10.17487/RFC8639, September 2019.
[RFC8641] Clemm, A. and E. Voit, "Subscription to YANG Notifications for Datastore Updates", RFC 8641, DOI 10.17487/RFC8641, September 2019.

8.2. Informative References

[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997.
[RFC3688] Mealling, M., "The IETF XML Registry", BCP 81, RFC 3688, DOI 10.17487/RFC3688, January 2004.
[RFC8174] Leiba, B., "Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key Words", BCP 14, RFC 8174, DOI 10.17487/RFC8174, May 2017.
[RFC8340] Bjorklund, M. and L. Berger, "YANG Tree Diagrams", BCP 215, RFC 8340, DOI 10.17487/RFC8340, March 2018.

Appendix A. Instance data examples

 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<instance-data-set xmlns=
    "urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-yang-instance-data">
  <name>acme-switch-notification-capabilities</name>
  <yid-version>1</yid-version>
  <content-schema>
    <module>ietf-system-capabilities@2020-01-02</module>
    <module>ietf-notification-capabilities@2020-01-02</module>
  </content-schema>
  <!-- revision date, contact, etc. --> 
  <description>Notification capabilities of acme-switch.
    Acme-switch implements the running, candidate and operational 
    datastores. Every change can be reported on-change from running, 
    nothing from candidate and all config=false data from operational.
    Periodic subscriptions are supported for running and 
    operational, but not for candidate.
  </description>
  <content-data>
    <system-capabilities
      xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-system-capabilities" 
      xmlns:inc=
        "urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-notification-capabilities" 
      xmlns:ds="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-datastores">
      <inc:subscription-capabilities>
        <inc:minimum-update-period>500</inc:minimum-update-period>
        <inc:max-objects-per-update>2000</inc:max-objects-per-update>
        <inc:minimum-dampening-period>100</inc:minimum-dampening-period>
        <inc:periodic-notifications-supported>
          notifications-for-all-changes-supported
        </inc:periodic-notifications-supported>
      </inc:subscription-capabilities>
      <datastore-capabilities>
        <datastore>ds:operational</datastore>
        <per-node-capabilities>
          <node-selector>/</node-selector>
          <inc:subscription-capabilities>
            <inc:on-change-supported>
              notifications-for-state-changes-supported
            </inc:on-change-supported>
          </inc:subscription-capabilities>
        </per-node-capabilities>
        </datastore-capabilities>      
      <datastore-capabilities>
        <datastore>ds:candidate</datastore>
        <per-node-capabilities>
          <node-selector>/</node-selector>
          <inc:subscription-capabilities>
            <inc:on-change-supported>no-notifications-supported
            </inc:on-change-supported>
            <inc:periodic-notifications-supported>
              no-notifications-supported
            </inc:periodic-notifications-supported>
          </inc:subscription-capabilities>
        </per-node-capabilities>
      </datastore-capabilities>
      <datastore-capabilities>
        <datastore>ds:running</datastore>
        <per-node-capabilities>
          <node-selector>/</node-selector>
          <inc:subscription-capabilities>
            <inc:on-change-supported>
              notifications-for-all-changes-supported
            </inc:on-change-supported>
          </inc:subscription-capabilities>
        </per-node-capabilities>
      </datastore-capabilities>  
    </system-capabilities>
  </content-data>
</instance-data-set>
          

Figure 1: Notification Capabilities with datastore level settings

The following example is instance-data describing the notification capabilities of a hypothetical "acme-switch". The switch implements the running, candidate and operational datastores. Every change can be reported on-change from running, nothing from candidate and all config=false data from operational. Periodic subscriptions are supported for running and operational, but not for candidate.

  
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<instance-data-set xmlns=
    "urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-yang-instance-data">
  <name>acme-router-notification-capabilities</name>
  <yid-version>1</yid-version>
  <content-schema>
    <module>ietf-system-capabilities@2020-01-02</module>
    <module>ietf-notification-capabilities@2020-01-02</module>
  </content-schema>
  <!-- revision date, contact, etc. --> 
  <description>Defines the notification capabilities of an acme-router.
    The router only has running, and operational datastores.
    Every change can be reported on-change from running, but 
    only config=true nodes and some config=false data from operational.
    Statistics are not reported on-change only 2 important counters,
    for these a smaller dampening period is possible.
  </description>
  <content-data>
    <system-capabilities
      xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-system-capabilities" 
      xmlns:inc=
        "urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-notification-capabilities" 
      xmlns:ds="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-datastores">
      <inc:subscription-capabilities>
        <inc:minimum-update-period>500</inc:minimum-update-period>
        <inc:max-objects-per-update>2000</inc:max-objects-per-update>
        <inc:minimum-dampening-period>100</inc:minimum-dampening-period>
        <inc:periodic-notifications-supported>
          notifications-for-all-changes-supported
        </inc:periodic-notifications-supported>
        <inc:on-change-supported>
          notifications-for-all-changes-supported
        </inc:on-change-supported>
        <inc:supported-excluded-change-type>
          all
        </inc:supported-excluded-change-type>
      </inc:subscription-capabilities>
      <datastore-capabilities>
        <datastore>ds:operational</datastore>
        <per-node-capabilities>
          <node-selector>
              /if:interfaces/if:interface/if:statistics</node-selector>
          <inc:subscription-capabilities>
            <inc:on-change-supported>
              no-notifications-supported
            </inc:on-change-supported>
          </inc:subscription-capabilities>
        </per-node-capabilities>
        <per-node-capabilities>
          <node-selector>
              /if:interfaces/if:interface/if:statistics/if:in-octets
          </node-selector>
          <inc:subscription-capabilities>
            <inc:minimum-dampening-period>10
              </inc:minimum-dampening-period>
            <inc:on-change-supported>
              notifications-for-all-changes-supported
            </inc:on-change-supported>
          </inc:subscription-capabilities>
        </per-node-capabilities>
        <per-node-capabilities>
          <node-selector>
              /if:interfaces/if:interface/if:statistics/if:out-octets
          </node-selector>
          <inc:subscription-capabilities>
            <inc:minimum-dampening-period>10
              </inc:minimum-dampening-period>
            <inc:on-change-supported>
              notifications-for-all-changes-supported
            </inc:on-change-supported>
          </inc:subscription-capabilities>
        </per-node-capabilities>
      </datastore-capabilities>        
    </system-capabilities>
  </content-data>
</instance-data-set>
          

Figure 2: Notification Capabilities with data node specific settings

The following is the instance-data describing the notification capabilities of a hypothetical "acme-router". The router implements the running, and operational datastores. Every change can be reported on-change from running, but only config=true nodes and some config=false data from operational. Interface statistics are not reported on-change only 2 important counters. Datastore subscription capabilities are not reported on-change as they never change on the acme-router during run-time.

Appendix B. Changes between revisions

v08 - v09

v07 - v08

v06 - v07

v05 - v06

v04 - v05

v03 - v04

v02 - v03

v01 - v02

v00 - v01

Authors' Addresses

Balazs Lengyel Ericsson Magyar Tudosok korutja 11 1117 Budapest, Hungary EMail: balazs.lengyel@ericsson.com
Alexander Clemm Futurewei 2330 Central Expressway Santa Clara, CA 95050, USA EMail: ludwig@clemm.org
Benoit Claise Cisco Systems, Inc. De Kleetlaan 6a b1 1831 Diegem, Belgium EMail: bclaise@cisco.com