NETCONF Working Group K. Watsen
Internet-Draft Watsen Networks
Intended status: Standards Track March 9, 2019
Expires: September 10, 2019

YANG Groupings for HTTP Clients and HTTP Servers
draft-kwatsen-netconf-http-client-server-00

Abstract

This document defines two YANG modules: the first defines a grouping for configuring a generic HTTP client, and the second defines a grouping for configuring a generic HTTP server. It is intended that these groupings will be used by applications using the HTTP protocol.

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction

This document defines two YANG 1.1 [RFC7950] modules: the first defines a grouping for configuring a generic HTTP client, and the second defines a grouping for configuring a generic HTTP server. It is intended that these groupings will be used by applications using the HTTP protocol. For instance, these groupings could help define the configuration module for an SSH, TLS, or HTTP based application.

2. 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.

3. The HTTP Client Model

3.1. Tree Diagram

This section provides a tree diagram [RFC8340] for the "ietf-http-client" module.

module: ietf-http-client

  grouping http-client-grouping
    +-- http-client-identity
    |  +-- (auth-type)?
    |     +--:(basic)
    |     |  +-- basic
    |     |     +-- user-id?    string
    |     |     +-- password?   string
    |     +--:(bearer)
    |     |  +-- bearer
    |     |     +-- token?   string
    |     +--:(digest)
    |     |  +-- digest
    |     |     +-- username?   string
    |     |     +-- password?   string
    |     +--:(hoba)
    |     |  +-- hoba
    |     +--:(mutual)
    |     |  +-- mutual
    |     +--:(negotiate)
    |     |  +-- negotiate
    |     +--:(oauth)
    |     |  +-- oauth
    |     +--:(scram-sha-1)
    |     |  +-- scram-sha-1
    |     +--:(scram-sha-256)
    |     |  +-- scram-sha-256
    |     +--:(vapid)
    |        +-- vapid
    +-- http-keepalives {http-client-keepalives}?
       +-- max-wait?       uint16
       +-- max-attempts?   uint8
  grouping http-client-identity-grouping
    +-- http-client-identity
       +-- (auth-type)?
          +--:(basic)
          |  +-- basic
          |     +-- user-id?    string
          |     +-- password?   string
          +--:(bearer)
          |  +-- bearer
          |     +-- token?   string
          +--:(digest)
          |  +-- digest
          |     +-- username?   string
          |     +-- password?   string
          +--:(hoba)
          |  +-- hoba
          +--:(mutual)
          |  +-- mutual
          +--:(negotiate)
          |  +-- negotiate
          +--:(oauth)
          |  +-- oauth
          +--:(scram-sha-1)
          |  +-- scram-sha-1
          +--:(scram-sha-256)
          |  +-- scram-sha-256
          +--:(vapid)
             +-- vapid
  grouping http-keepalives-grouping
    +-- http-keepalives {http-client-keepalives}?
       +-- max-wait?       uint16
       +-- max-attempts?   uint8

3.2. Example Usage

This section presents an example showing the http-client-grouping populated with some data.

<http-client xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-http-client">
  <http-client-identity>
    <basic>
      <user-id>bob</user-id>
      <password>secret</password>
    </basic>
  </http-client-identity>
  <http-keepalives>
    <max-wait>30</max-wait>
    <max-attempts>3</max-attempts>
  </http-keepalives>
</http-client>

3.3. YANG Module

This YANG module has normative references to [RFC6991].

<CODE BEGINS> file "ietf-http-client@2019-03-09.yang"
module ietf-http-client {
  yang-version 1.1;
  namespace "urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-http-client";
  prefix httpc;

  organization
    "IETF NETCONF (Network Configuration) Working Group";
  contact
    "WG Web:   <http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/netconf/>
     WG List:  <mailto:netconf@ietf.org>
     Author:   Kent Watsen <mailto:kent+ietf@watsen.net>";
  description
    "This module defines reusable groupings for HTTP clients that
     can be used as a basis for specific HTTP client instances.

     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.

     Copyright (c) 2019 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; see
     the RFC itself for full legal notices.";

  revision 2019-03-09 {
    description
      "Initial version";
    reference
      "RFC XXXX: YANG Groupings for HTTP Clients and HTTP Servers";
  }

  // Features

  feature http-client-keepalives {
    description
      "Per socket HTTP keepalive parameters are configurable for
       HTTP clients on the server implementing this feature.";
  }

  // Groupings

  grouping http-client-grouping {
    description
      "A reusable grouping for configuring a HTTP client,
       including the IP address and port number it initiates
       a connections to.";
    uses http-client-identity-grouping;
    uses http-keepalives-grouping;
    // uses http-proxy-grouping;
  }

  grouping http-client-identity-grouping {
    description
      "A reusable grouping for configuring a HTTP client identity.";
    container http-client-identity {
      description
        "The credentials used by the client to authenticate to
         the HTTP server.";
      choice auth-type {
        description
          "The authentication type.";
        container basic {
          leaf user-id {
            type string;
            description
              "The user-id for the authenticating client.";
          }
          leaf password {
            type string;
            description
              "The password for the authenticating client.";
          }
          description
            "The 'basic' HTTP scheme credentials.";
          reference
            "RFC 7617: The 'Basic' HTTP Authentication Scheme";
        }
        container bearer {
          leaf token {
            type string;
            description
              "The bearer token for the authenticating client,
               encoded in base64, as described in RFC 6750,
               Section 2.1.";
          }
          description
            "The 'bearer' HTTP scheme credentials.";
          reference
            "RFC 6750: The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework:
                       Bearer Token Usage";
        }
        container digest {
          leaf username {
            type string;
            description
              "The username for the authenticating client.";
          }
          leaf password {
            type string;
            description
              "The password for the authenticating client.";
          }
          description
            "The 'digest' HTTP scheme credentials.";
          reference
            "RFC 7616: HTTP Digest Access Authentication";
        }
        container hoba {
          // FIXME
          description
            "The 'hoba' HTTP scheme credentials.";
          reference
            "RFC 7486: HTTP Origin-Bound Authentication (HOBA)";
        }
        container mutual {
          // FIXME
          description
            "The 'mutual' HTTP scheme credentials.";
          reference
            "RFC 8120: Mutual Authentication Protocol for HTTP";
        }
        container negotiate {
          // FIXME
          description
            "The 'negotiate' HTTP scheme credentials.";
          reference
            "RFC 4559: SPNEGO-based Kerberos and NTLM HTTP
                       Authentication in Microsoft Windows";
        }
        container oauth {
          // FIXME
          description
            "The 'oauth' HTTP scheme credentials.";
          reference
            "RFC 6749: The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework";
        }
        container scram-sha-1 {
          // FIXME
          description
            "The 'scram-sha-1' HTTP scheme credentials.";
          reference
            "RFC 7804: Salted Challenge Response HTTP
                       Authentication Mechanism";
        }
        container scram-sha-256 {
          // FIXME
          description
            "The 'scram-sha-256' HTTP scheme credentials.";
          reference
            "RFC 7804: Salted Challenge Response HTTP
                       Authentication Mechanism";
        }
        container vapid {
          // FIXME
          description
            "The 'vapid' HTTP scheme credentials.";
          reference
            "RFC 8292: Voluntary Application Server
                       Identification (VAPID) for Web Push";
        }
      }
    }
  }

  grouping http-keepalives-grouping {
    description
      "A reusable grouping for configuring HTTP client keepalive
       parameters.";
    container http-keepalives {
      if-feature "http-client-keepalives";
      description
        "Configures the keep-alive policy, to proactively test
         the aliveness of the HTTP server.  An unresponsive
         HTTP server is dropped after approximately max-wait
         * max-attempts seconds.";
      leaf max-wait {
        type uint16 {
          range "1..max";
        }
        units "seconds";
        default "30";
        description
          "Sets the amount of time in seconds after which if no
           data has been received from the HTTP server, a HTTP
           level message will be sent to test the aliveness of
           the HTTP server.";
      }
      leaf max-attempts {
        type uint8;
        default "3";
        description
          "Sets the maximum number of sequential keep-alive messages
           that can fail to obtain a response from the HTTP server
           before assuming the HTTP server is no longer alive.";
      }
    }
  }
}
<CODE ENDS>

4. The HTTP Server Model

4.1. Tree Diagram

This section provides a tree diagram [RFC8340] for the "ietf-http-server" module.

module: ietf-http-server

  grouping http-server-grouping
    +-- http-keepalives {http-server-keepalives}?
       +-- max-wait?       uint16
       +-- max-attempts?   uint8
  grouping keepalives-grouping
    +-- http-keepalives {http-server-keepalives}?
       +-- max-wait?       uint16
       +-- max-attempts?   uint8

4.2. Example Usage

This section presents an example showing the http-server-grouping populated with some data.

<http-server xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-http-server">
  <http-keepalives>
    <max-wait>30</max-wait>
    <max-attempts>3</max-attempts>
  </http-keepalives>
</http-server>

4.3. YANG Module

This YANG module has normative references to [RFC6991].

<CODE BEGINS> file "ietf-http-server@2019-03-09.yang"
module ietf-http-server {
  yang-version 1.1;
  namespace "urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-http-server";
  prefix https;

  organization
    "IETF NETCONF (Network Configuration) Working Group";
  contact
    "WG Web:   <http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/netconf/>
     WG List:  <mailto:netconf@ietf.org>
     Author:   Kent Watsen <mailto:kent+ietf@watsen.net>";
  description
    "This module defines reusable groupings for HTTP servers that
     can be used as a basis for specific HTTP server instances.

     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.

     Copyright (c) 2019 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; see
     the RFC itself for full legal notices.";

  revision 2019-03-09 {
    description
      "Initial version";
    reference
      "RFC XXXX: YANG Groupings for HTTP Clients and HTTP Servers";
  }

  // Features

  feature http-server-keepalives {
    description
      "Per socket HTTP keepalive parameters are configurable for
       HTTP servers on the server implementing this feature.";
  }

  // Groupings

  grouping http-server-grouping {
    description
      "A reusable grouping for configuring a HTTP server,
       including the IP address and port number it listens
       for connections on.";
    uses keepalives-grouping;
  }

  grouping keepalives-grouping {
    description
      "A reusable grouping for configuring HTTP server keepalive
       parameters.";
    container http-keepalives {
      if-feature "http-server-keepalives";
      description
        "Configures the keep-alive policy, to proactively test
         the aliveness of the HTTP client.  An unresponsive
         HTTP client is dropped after approximately max-wait
         * max-attempts seconds.";
      leaf max-wait {
        type uint16 {
          range "1..max";
        }
        units "seconds";
        default "30";
        description
          "Sets the amount of time in seconds after which if no
           data has been received from the HTTP client, a HTTP
           level message will be sent to test the aliveness of
           the HTTP client.";
      }
      leaf max-attempts {
        type uint8;
        default "3";
        description
          "Sets the maximum number of sequential keep-alive messages
           that can fail to obtain a response from the HTTP client
           before assuming the HTTP client is no longer alive.";
      }
    }
  }
}
<CODE ENDS>

5. Security Considerations

The YANG modules defined in this document are designed to be accessed via YANG based management protocols, such as NETCONF [RFC6241] and RESTCONF [RFC8040]. Both of these protocols have mandatory-to-implement secure transport layers (e.g., SSH, HTTP) with mutual authentication.

The NETCONF access control model (NACM) [RFC8341] provides the means to restrict access for particular users to a pre-configured subset of all available protocol operations and content.

Since the modules defined in this document only define groupings, these considerations are primarily for the designers of other modules that use these groupings.

There are a number of data nodes defined in the YANG modules that are writable/creatable/deletable (i.e., config true, which is the default). These data nodes may be considered sensitive or vulnerable in some network environments. Write operations (e.g., edit-config) to these data nodes without proper protection can have a negative effect on network operations. These are the subtrees and data nodes and their sensitivity/vulnerability:

NONE

Some of the readable data nodes in the YANG modules may be considered sensitive or vulnerable in some network environments. It is thus important to control read access (e.g., via get, get-config, or notification) to these data nodes. These are the subtrees and data nodes and their sensitivity/vulnerability:

NONE

Some of the RPC operations in this YANG module may be considered sensitive or vulnerable in some network environments. It is thus important to control access to these operations. These are the operations and their sensitivity/vulnerability:

NONE

6. IANA Considerations

6.1. The IETF XML Registry

This document registers two URIs in the "ns" subregistry of the IETF XML Registry [RFC3688]. Following the format in [RFC3688], the following registrations are requested:

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

6.2. The YANG Module Names Registry

This document registers two YANG modules in the YANG Module Names registry [RFC6020]. Following the format in [RFC6020], the following registrations are requested:

   name:         ietf-http-client
   namespace:    urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-http-client
   prefix:       httpc
   reference:    RFC XXXX

   name:         ietf-http-server
   namespace:    urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-http-server
   prefix:       https
   reference:    RFC XXXX

7. References

7.1. Normative References

[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997.
[RFC6020] Bjorklund, M., "YANG - A Data Modeling Language for the Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF)", RFC 6020, DOI 10.17487/RFC6020, October 2010.
[RFC6991] Schoenwaelder, J., "Common YANG Data Types", RFC 6991, DOI 10.17487/RFC6991, July 2013.
[RFC7950] Bjorklund, M., "The YANG 1.1 Data Modeling Language", RFC 7950, DOI 10.17487/RFC7950, August 2016.
[RFC8174] Leiba, B., "Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key Words", BCP 14, RFC 8174, DOI 10.17487/RFC8174, May 2017.
[RFC8341] Bierman, A. and M. Bjorklund, "Network Configuration Access Control Model", STD 91, RFC 8341, DOI 10.17487/RFC8341, March 2018.

7.2. Informative References

[RFC3688] Mealling, M., "The IETF XML Registry", BCP 81, RFC 3688, DOI 10.17487/RFC3688, January 2004.
[RFC6241] Enns, R., Bjorklund, M., Schoenwaelder, J. and A. Bierman, "Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF)", RFC 6241, DOI 10.17487/RFC6241, June 2011.
[RFC8040] Bierman, A., Bjorklund, M. and K. Watsen, "RESTCONF Protocol", RFC 8040, DOI 10.17487/RFC8040, January 2017.
[RFC8340] Bjorklund, M. and L. Berger, "YANG Tree Diagrams", BCP 215, RFC 8340, DOI 10.17487/RFC8340, March 2018.

Author's Address

Kent Watsen Watsen Networks EMail: kent+ietf@watsen.net