Last Call Review of draft-ietf-netconf-restconf-client-server-04
review-ietf-netconf-restconf-client-server-04-yangdoctors-lc-bierman-2017-07-28-00
Review
review-ietf-netconf-restconf-client-server-04-yangdoctors-lc-bierman-2017-07-28
Review: draft-ietf-netconf-restconf-client-server-04
Modules:
(M1) ietf-restconf-client@2017-07-03.yang
(M2) ietf-restconf-server@2017-07-03.yang
YANG Usage:
I did not find anything wrong in either module.
pyang and yangdump-pro do not report any errors or warnings.
Comments:
C1:
(M1) RESTCONF does not have sessions so the term "RESTCONF session"
needs to be defined
C2:
(M1) feature tls-initiate
(M1) feature tls-listen
(M2) feature tls-listen
(M2) feature tls-call-home
Are these features really needed since a RESTCONF server MUST support
the TLS transport?
C3:
(M1) /restconf-client/initiate/restconf-server/persistent/
RESTCONF has no session setup; It only has request and
response interactions. The purpose of reconnect, idle timeouts etc.
are completely up to the client application.
C4:
(M1) /restconf-client/initiate/restconf-server/persistent/max-attempts
What should the RESTCONF client do if a "Connection: close"
header is received from the server (indicating the server is dropping
the TCP connection) Should the reconnects proceed?
C5:
(M1) /restconf-client/initiate/restconf-server/periodic/
"Periodically connect to the RESTCONF server, so that
the RESTCONF server may deliver messages pending for
the RESTCONF client. The RESTCONF server must close
the connection when it is ready to release it.
This is not how RESTCONF works.
The RESTCONF server requires a request message in order to
send content to a client. I do not understand the use-case
for periodic RESTCONF sessions.
C6:
(M1) /restconf-client/initiate/restconf-server/periodic/
(M2) /restconf-server/call-home/restconf-client/connection-type/periodic/
The RESTCONF notifications via SSE should be exempt from timeouts.
The RESTCONF client should terminate an SSE request. The server should
not timeout an SSE response connection
C7:
Sec 1.2 Tree Diagrams
Old text should be replaced with reference to
draft-ietf-netmod-yang-tree-diagrams-01
C8:
(M1) IETF copyright says 2014; change to 2017
(M2) IETF copyright says 2014; change to 2017
Nits:
Some descriptions mention SSH. This should be removed from
this document.
The descriptions for choices that have only 1 case should
explain why a choice is being used.
The tree diagram shows the fully expanded groupings,
even many objects are in other drafts. I needed all 5 drafts
open in windows for searching, plus pyang tree output,
to really follow the data model structure.
The examples do not show any usage of the hello-params.
This would be useful because the namespace for the
identityref objects (tls-version, cipher-suite) is not
the same as the module that uses the grouping.
Note that the 'map-type' identityref is shown correctly encoded
in examples on page 19 and 20.