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draft-ietf-netconf-restconf-notif-04
NETCONF                                                          E. Voit
Internet-Draft                                               A. Tripathy
Intended status: Standards Track                       E. Nilsen-Nygaard
Expires: August 4, 2018                                    Cisco Systems
                                                                A. Clemm
                                                                  Huawei
                                                      A. Gonzalez Prieto
                                                                  VMWare
                                                              A. Bierman
                                                               YumaWorks
                                                        January 31, 2018

          RESTCONF and HTTP Transport for Event Notifications
                  draft-ietf-netconf-restconf-notif-04

Abstract

   This document defines RESTCONF, HTTP2, and HTTP1.1 bindings for the
   transport of subscription requests and corresponding push updates.
   Being subscribed may be either publisher defined event streams or
   nodes/subtrees of YANG Datastores.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   3.  Solution  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     3.1.  Dynamic YANG Subscription with RESTCONF control . . . . .   3
   4.  Mandatory JSON and datastore support  . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   5.  Notification Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   6.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   7.  Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   8.  References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     8.1.  Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     8.2.  Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   Appendix A.  End-to-End Deployment Guidance . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     A.1.  Call Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     A.2.  TLS Heartbeat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
   Appendix B.  RESTCONF over GRPC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
   Appendix C.  Encoded Subscription and Notification Message
                Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
     C.1.  RESTCONF Subscription and Events over HTTP1.1 . . . . . .  10
     C.2.  Event Notification over HTTP2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14
   Appendix D.  Changes between revisions  . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  15

1.  Introduction

   Mechanisms to support event subscription and push are defined in
   [I-D.draft-ietf-netconf-subscribed-notifications].  Enhancements to
   [I-D.draft-ietf-netconf-subscribed-notifications] which enable YANG
   Datastore subscription and push are defined in
   [I-D.ietf-netconf-yang-push].  This document provides a transport
   specification for these protocols over RESTCONF and HTTP.  Driving
   these requirements is [RFC7923].

   The streaming of notifications encapsulating the resulting
   information push can be done with either HTTP1.1 and HTTP2.  When
   using HTTP2 [RFC7540] benefits which can be realized include:

   o  Elimination of head-of-line blocking

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   o  Weighting and proportional dequeuing of Events from different
      subscriptions

   o  Explicit precedence in subscriptions so that events from one
      subscription must be sent before another dequeues

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 use the definitions from
   [I-D.draft-ietf-netconf-subscribed-notifications]: configured
   subscription, dynamic subscription, notification message, publisher,
   receiver, subscriber, and subscription.

3.  Solution

   Subscribing to event streams is defined in
   [I-D.draft-ietf-netconf-subscribed-notifications], YANG Datastore
   subscription is defined in [I-D.ietf-netconf-yang-push].  This
   section specifies transport mechanisms applicable to both.

3.1.  Dynamic YANG Subscription with RESTCONF control

   Dynamic subscriptions for both
   [I-D.draft-ietf-netconf-subscribed-notifications] and its
   [I-D.ietf-netconf-yang-push] augmentations are configured and managed
   via signaling messages transported over [RFC8040].  These
   interactions will be accomplished via a RESTCONF POST into RPCs
   located on the publisher.  HTTP responses codes will indicate the
   results of the interaction with the publisher.  An HTTP status code
   of 200 is the proper response to a successful <establish-
   subscription> RPC call.  The successful <establish-subscription> will
   result in a HTTP message with returned subscription URI on a
   logically separate mechanism than was used for the original RESTCONF
   POST.  This mechanism is via a parallel TCP connection in the case of
   HTTP 1.x, or in the case of HTTP2 via a separate HTTP stream within
   the HTTP connection.  When a being returned by the publisher, failure
   will be indicated by 4xx range status codes transported in payload.
   Anytime hints are returned from the publisher status code 412 is used
   with the error-tag "operation-failed".

   Once established, the resulting stream of notification messages are
   then delivered via SSE for HTTP1.1 and via an HTTP2 DATA frame for
   HTTP2.

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3.1.1.  Call Flow for HTTP2

   Requests to [I-D.draft-ietf-netconf-subscribed-notifications] or
   [I-D.ietf-netconf-yang-push] augmented RPCs are sent on one or more
   HTTP2 streams indicated by (a) in Figure 2.  Notification messages
   related to a single subscription are pushed on a unique logical
   channel (b).  In the case below, a newly established subscription has
   its associated messages pushed over HTTP2 stream (7).

   +------------+                                 +------------+
   | Subscriber |                                 | Publisher  |
   |HTTP2 Stream|                                 |HTTP2 Stream|
   |  (a)  (b)  |                                 |  (a)  (b)  |
   +------------+                                 +------------+
       | RESTCONF POST (RPC:establish-subscription)   |
       |--------------------------------------------->|
       |                             HTTP 200 OK (URI)|
       |<---------------------------------------------|
       |   (7)HTTP POST (URI)                             (7)
       |    |--------------------------------------------->|
       |    |                                   HTTP 200 OK|
       |    |<---------------------------------------------|
       |    |                       HTTP Data (event-notif)|
       |    |<---------------------------------------------|
       | RESTCONF POST (RPC:modify-subscription)      |    |
       |--------------------------------------------->|    |
       |    |                              HTTP 200 OK|    |
       |<---------------------------------------------|    |
       |    |             HTTP Data (subscription-modified)|
       |    |<---------------------------------------------|
       |    |                       HTTP Data (event-notif)|
       |    |<---------------------------------------------|
       | RESTCONF POST (RPC:delete-subscription)      |    |
       |--------------------------------------------->|    |
       |    |                              HTTP 200 OK|    |
       |<---------------------------------------------|    |
       |    |                  HTTP Headers (end of stream)|
       |   (/7)<-----------------------------------------(/7)
       |

                       Figure 1: Dynamic with HTTP2

3.1.2.  Call flow for HTTP1.1

   Requests to [I-D.ietf-netconf-yang-push] RPCs are sent on the TCP
   connection indicated by (a).  Notification messages are pushed on a
   separate connection (b).  This connection (b) will be used for all
   notification messages across all subscriptions.

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   +--------------+                             +--------------+
   |  Subscriber  |                             |   Publisher  |
   |TCP connection|                             |TCP connection|
   |  (a)  (b)    |                             |    (a)  (b)  |
   +--------------+                             +--------------+
       | RESTCONF POST (RPC:establish-subscription)   |
       |--------------------------------------------->|
       |                             HTTP 200 OK (URI)|
       |<---------------------------------------------|
       |    |HTTP GET (URI)                                |
       |    |--------------------------------------------->|
       |    |                                   HTTP 200 OK|
       |    |<---------------------------------------------|
       |    |                             SSE (event-notif)|
       |    |<---------------------------------------------|
       | RESTCONF POST (RPC:modify-subscription)      |    |
       |--------------------------------------------->|    |
       |    |                              HTTP 200 OK|    |
       |<---------------------------------------------|    |
       |    |                   SSE (subscription-modified)|
       |    |<---------------------------------------------|
       |    |                             SSE (event-notif)|
       |    |<---------------------------------------------|
       | RESTCONF POST (RPC:delete-subscription)      |    |
       |--------------------------------------------->|    |
       |    |                              HTTP 200 OK|    |
       |<---------------------------------------------|    |
       |    |                                              |
       |    |

                      Figure 2: Dynamic with HTTP1.1

3.1.3.  Configured Subscription over HTTP2

   With a configured subscription, all information needed to establish a
   secure relationship with that receiver is available on the publisher.
   With this information, the publisher will establish a secure
   transport connection with the receiver and then begin pushing
   notification messages to the receiver.  Since RESTCONF might not
   exist on the receiver, it is not desirable to require that subscribed
   content be pushed with any dependency on RESTCONF.  Therefore in
   place of RESTCONF, a TLS secured HTTP2 Client connection must be
   established with an HTTP2 Server located on the receiver.
   Notification messages will then be sent as part of an extended HTTP
   POST to the receiver.

   POST messages will be addressed to HTTP augmentation code on the
   receiver capable of accepting and responding to state change

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   notifications and subscribed content notification messages.  The
   first POST message must be a subscription-started notification.
   Notifications which include any subscribed content must not be sent
   until the receipt of an HTTP 200 OK for this initial notification.
   The 200 OK will indicate that the receiver is ready for the delivery
   of subscribed content.  At this point a subscription must be
   allocated its own HTTP2 stream.  Figure 4 depicts this message flow.

   +------------+                                 +------------+
   |  Receiver  |                                 | Publisher  |
   |HTTP2 Stream|                                 |HTTP2 Stream|
   |  (a)  (b)  |                                 |  (a)  (b)  |
   +------------+                                 +------------+
       |    HTTP Post Headers, Data (sub-start, SubID)|
       |<---------------------------------------------|
       | HTTP 200 OK                                  |
       |--------------------------------------------->|
       |    |         HTTP Post Headers, Data (event-notif)|
       |    |<---------------------------------------------|
       |    |                       HTTP Data (event-notif)|
       |    |<---------------------------------------------|
       |    |                     HTTP Data (sub-terminate)|
       |    |<---------------------------------------------|
       |    |HTTP 200 OK                                   |
       |    |--------------------------------------------->|

                      Figure 3: Configured over HTTP2

   As the HTTP2 transport is available to the receiver, the publisher
   should:

   o  take any subscription-priority and copy it into the HTTP2 stream
      priority, and

   o  take a subscription-dependency if it has been provided and map the
      HTTP2 stream for the parent subscription into the HTTP2 stream
      dependency.

4.  Mandatory JSON and datastore support

   A publisher MUST support JSON encoding of RPCs and Notifications.

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

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5.  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.

6.  Security Considerations

   One or more publishers of configured subscriptions could be used to
   overwhelm a receiver which doesn't even support subscriptions.  There
   are two protections needing support on a publisher.  First,
   notification messages for configured subscriptions MUST only be
   transmittable over encrypted transports.  Clients which do not want
   pushed content need only terminate or refuse any transport sessions
   from the publisher.  Second, the HTTP transport augmentation on the
   receiver must send an HTTP 200 OK to a subscription started
   notification before the publisher starts streaming any subscribed
   content.

   One or more publishers could overwhelm a receiver which is unable to
   control or handle the volume of Event Notifications received.  In
   deployments where this might be a concern, HTTP2 transport such as
   HTTP2) should be selected.

   The NETCONF Authorization Control Model [RFC6536] SHOULD be used to
   control and restrict authorization of subscription configuration.

7.  Acknowledgments

   We wish to acknowledge the helpful contributions, comments, and
   suggestions that were received from: Susan Hares, Tim Jenkins, Balazs
   Lengyel, Kent Watsen, Michael Scharf, and Guangying Zheng.

8.  References

8.1.  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-06
              (work in progress), January 2018.

   [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-04
              (work in progress), August 2017.

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   [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>.

   [RFC6520]  Seggelmann, R., Tuexen, M., and M. Williams, "Transport
              Layer Security (TLS) and Datagram Transport Layer Security
              (DTLS) Heartbeat Extension", RFC 6520,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC6520, February 2012,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6520>.

   [RFC6536]  Bierman, A. and M. Bjorklund, "Network Configuration
              Protocol (NETCONF) Access Control Model", RFC 6536,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC6536, March 2012,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6536>.

   [RFC7540]  Belshe, M., Peon, R., and M. Thomson, Ed., "Hypertext
              Transfer Protocol Version 2 (HTTP/2)", RFC 7540,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC7540, May 2015,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7540>.

   [RFC8040]  Bierman, A., Bjorklund, M., and K. Watsen, "RESTCONF
              Protocol", RFC 8040, DOI 10.17487/RFC8040, January 2017,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8040>.

8.2.  Informative References

   [GRPC]     "RPC framework that runs over HTTP2", August 2017,
              <https://grpc.io/>.

   [I-D.ietf-netconf-yang-push]
              Clemm, A., Voit, E., Gonzalez Prieto, A., Prasad Tripathy,
              A., Nilsen-Nygaard, E., Bierman, A., and B. Lengyel,
              "Subscribing to YANG datastore push updates", March 2017,
              <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/
              draft-ietf-netconf-yang-push/>.

   [RFC7923]  Voit, E., Clemm, A., and A. Gonzalez Prieto, "Requirements
              for Subscription to YANG Datastores", RFC 7923,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC7923, June 2016,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7923>.

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   [RFC7951]  Lhotka, L., "JSON Encoding of Data Modeled with YANG",
              RFC 7951, DOI 10.17487/RFC7951, August 2016,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7951>.

   [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>.

   [W3C-20150203]
              "Server-Sent Events, World Wide Web Consortium CR CR-
              eventsource-20121211", February 2015,
              <https://www.w3.org/TR/2015/REC-eventsource-20150203/>.

Appendix A.  End-to-End Deployment Guidance

   Several technologies are expected to be seen within a deployment to
   achieve security and ease-of-use requirements.  These are not
   necessary for an implementation of this specification, but will be
   useful to consider when considering the operational context.

A.1.  Call Home

   Implementations should include the ability to transparently
   incorporate 'call home' [RFC8071] so that secure TLS connections can
   originate from the desired device.

A.2.  TLS Heartbeat

   HTTP sessions might not quickly allow a subscriber to recognize when
   the communication path has been lost from the publisher.  To
   recognize this, it is possible for a receiver to establish a TLS
   heartbeat [RFC6520].  In the case where a TLS heartbeat is included,
   it should be sent just from receiver to publisher.  Loss of the
   heartbeat should result in any subscription related TCP sessions
   between those endpoints being torn down.  The subscription can then
   attempt to re-establish.

Appendix B.  RESTCONF over GRPC

   An initial goal for this document was to support [GRPC] transport
   seamlessly without any mapping or extra layering.  However there is
   an incompatibility of RESTCONF and GRPC.  RESTCONF uses HTTP GET, and
   GRPC uses HTTP2's POST rather than GET.  As GET is used across
   RESTCONF for things like capabilities exchange, a seamless mapping
   depends on specification changes outside the scope of this document.
   If/when GRPC supports GET, or RESTCONF is updated to support POST,
   this should be revisited.  It is hoped that the resulting fix will be
   transparent to this document.

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Appendix C.  Encoded Subscription and Notification Message Examples

   (Note: examples in this section need significant updates)

C.1.  RESTCONF Subscription and Events over HTTP1.1

   Subscribers can dynamically learn whether a RESTCONF server supports
   various types of Event or Yang datastore subscription capabilities.
   This is done by issuing an HTTP request OPTIONS, HEAD, or GET on the
   stream.  Some examples building upon the Call flow for HTTP1.1 from
   Section 3.2.2 are:

   GET /restconf/data/ietf-restconf-monitoring:restconf-state/
            streams/stream=yang-push HTTP/1.1
   Host: example.com
   Accept: application/yang.data+xml

   If the server supports it, it may respond

   HTTP/1.1 200 OK
   Content-Type: application/yang.api+xml
   <stream xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-restconf-monitoring">
               <name>yang-push</name>
               <description>Yang push stream</description>
               <access>
                  <encoding>xml</encoding>
                  <location>https://example.com/streams/yang-push-xml
                  </location>
               </access>
               <access>
                  <encoding>json</encoding>
                  <location>https://example.com/streams/yang-push-json
                  </location>
               </access>
            </stream>

   If the server does not support any form of subscription, it may
   respond

   HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
   Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2012 11:10:30 GMT
   Server: example-server

   Subscribers can determine the URL to receive updates by sending an
   HTTP GET as a request for the "location" leaf with the stream list
   entry.  The stream to use for may be selected from the Event Stream
   list provided in the capabilities exchange.  Note that different

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   encodings are supporting using different Event Stream locations.  For
   example, the subscriber might send the following request:

   GET /restconf/data/ietf-restconf-monitoring:restconf-state/
            streams/stream=yang-push/access=xml/location HTTP/1.1
   Host: example.com
   Accept: application/yang.data+xml

   The publisher might send the following response:

   HTTP/1.1 200 OK
   Content-Type: application/yang.api+xml
      <location
           xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-restconf-monitoring">
           https://example.com/streams/yang-push-xml
      </location>

   To subscribe and start receiving updates, the subscriber can then
   send an HTTP GET request for the URL returned by the publisher in the
   request above.  The accept header must be "text/event-stream".  The
   publisher uses the Server Sent Events [W3C-20150203] transport
   strategy to push filtered events from the event stream.

   The publisher MUST support individual parameters within the POST
   request body for all the parameters of a subscription.  The only
   exception is the encoding, which is embedded in the URI.  An example
   of this is:

   // subtree filter = /foo
   // periodic updates, every 5 seconds
   POST /restconf/operations/ietf-subscribed-notifications:
        establish-subscription HTTP/1.1
         Host: example.com
         Content-Type: application/yang-data+json

         {
           "ietf-subscribed-notifications:input" : {
             "stream": "push-data"
             "period" : 5,
             "xpath-filter" : "/ex:foo[starts-with('bar'.'some']"
           }
         }

   Should the publisher not support the requested subscription, it may
   reply:

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   HTTP/1.1 501 Not Implemented
   Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:11:00 GMT
   Server: example-server
   Content-Type: application/yang.errors+xml
       <errors xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-restconf">
          <error>
              <error-type>application</error-type>
              <error-tag>operation-not-supported</error-tag>
              <error-severity>error</error-severity>
              <error-message>Xpath filters not supported</error-message>
              <error-info>
                  <supported-subscription xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:
                      netconf:datastore-push:1.0">
                      <subtree-filter/>
                  </supported-subscription>
              </error-info>
          </error>
        </errors>

   with an equivalent JSON encoding representation of:

   HTTP/1.1 501 Not Implemented
   Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:11:00 GMT
   Server: example-server
   Content-Type: application/yang.errors+json
         {
           "ietf-restconf:errors": {
             "error": {
               "error-type": "protocol",
               "error-tag": "operation-not-supported",
               "error-message": "Xpath filters not supported."
               "error-info": {
                  "datastore-push:supported-subscription": {
                        "subtree-filter": [null]
                    }
               }
             }
           }
         }

   The following is an example of a pushed content for the subscription
   above.  It contains a subtree with root foo that contains a leaf
   called bar:

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   XML encoding representation:
     <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
     <notification xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-restconf">
        <subscription-id xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:restconf:
            datastore-push:1.0">
              my-sub
        </subscription-id>
        <eventTime>2015-03-09T19:14:56.233Z</eventTime>
        <datastore-contents xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:restconf:
           datastore-push:1.0">
           <foo xmlns="http://example.com/yang-push/1.0">
             <bar>some_string</bar>
           </foo>
        </datastore-contents>
     </notification>

   Or with the equivalent YANG over JSON encoding representation as
   defined in [RFC7951]:

   {
     "ietf-restconf:notification": {
       "datastore-push:subscription-id": "my-sub",
       "eventTime": "2015-03-09T19:14:56.233Z",
       "datastore-push:datastore-contents": {
         "example-mod:foo": { "bar": "some_string" }
       }
     }
   }

   To modify a subscription, the subscriber issues another POST request
   on the provided URI using the same subscription-id as in the original
   request.  For example, to modify the update period to 10 seconds, the
   subscriber may send:

   POST /restconf/operations/ietf-subscribed-notifications:
         modify-subscription HTTP/1.1
         Host: example.com
         Content-Type: application/yang-data+json

         {
           "ietf-subscribed-notifications:input" : {
             "subscription-id": 100,
             "period" : 10
           }
         }

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   To delete a subscription, the subscriber issues a DELETE request on
   the provided URI using the same subscription-id as in the original
   request

C.2.  Event Notification over HTTP2

   The basic encoding will look as below.  It will consists of a JSON
   representation wrapped in an HTTP2 header.

   HyperText Transfer Protocol 2
         Stream: HEADERS, Stream ID: 5
         Header: :method: POST
         Stream: HEADERS, Stream ID: 5

   {
     "ietf-yangpush:notification": {
       "datastore-push:subscription-id": "my-sub",
       "eventTime": "2015-03-09T19:14:56.233Z",
       "datastore-push:datastore-contents": {
         "foo": { "bar": "some_string" }
       }
     }
   }

Appendix D.  Changes between revisions

   (To be removed by RFC editor prior to publication)

   v03 - v04

   o  Draft not fully synched to new version of subscribed-notifications
      yet.

   o  References updated

   v02 - v03

   o  Event notification reframed to notification message.

   o  Tweaks to wording/capitalization/format.

   v01 - v02

   o  Removed sections now redundant with
      [I-D.draft-ietf-netconf-subscribed-notifications] and
      [I-D.ietf-netconf-yang-push] such as: mechanisms for subscription
      maintenance, terminology definitions, stream discovery.

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   o  3rd party subscriptions are out-of-scope.

   o  SSE only used with RESTCONF and HTTP1.1 dynamic subscriptions

   o  Timeframes for event tagging are self-defined.

   o  Clean-up of wording, references to terminology, section numbers.

   v00 - v01

   o  Removed the ability for more than one subscription to go to a
      single HTTP2 stream.

   o  Updated call flows.  Extensively.

   o  SSE only used with RESTCONF and HTTP1.1 dynamic subscriptions

   o  HTTP is not used to determine that a receiver has gone silent and
      is not Receiving Event Notifications

   o  Many clean-ups of wording and terminology

Authors' Addresses

   Eric Voit
   Cisco Systems

   Email: evoit@cisco.com

   Ambika Prasad Tripathy
   Cisco Systems

   Email: ambtripa@cisco.com

   Einar Nilsen-Nygaard
   Cisco Systems

   Email: einarnn@cisco.com

   Alexander Clemm
   Huawei

   Email: ludwig@clemm.org

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   Alberto Gonzalez Prieto
   VMWare

   Email: agonzalezpri@vmware.com

   Andy Bierman
   YumaWorks

   Email: andy@yumaworks.com

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