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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)                        A. Bierman
Request for Comments: 8072                                     YumaWorks
Category: Standards Track                                   M. Bjorklund
ISSN: 2070-1721                                           Tail-f Systems
                                                               K. Watsen
                                                        Juniper Networks
                                                           February 2017

                         YANG Patch Media Type

Abstract

   This document describes a method for applying patches to
   configuration datastores using data defined with the YANG data
   modeling language.

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/rfc8072.

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RFC 8072                       YANG Patch                  February 2017

Table of Contents

   1. Introduction ....................................................3
      1.1. Terminology ................................................3
           1.1.1. NETCONF .............................................3
           1.1.2. HTTP ................................................4
           1.1.3. YANG ................................................4
           1.1.4. RESTCONF ............................................4
           1.1.5. YANG Patch ..........................................5
           1.1.6. Examples ............................................5
           1.1.7. Tree Diagram Notations ..............................6
   2. YANG Patch ......................................................6
      2.1. Target Resource ............................................7
      2.2. yang-patch Request .........................................8
      2.3. yang-patch-status Response .................................9
      2.4. Target Data Node ..........................................10
      2.5. Edit Operations ...........................................11
      2.6. Successful Edit Response Handling .........................11
      2.7. Error Handling ............................................12
      2.8. ":yang-patch" RESTCONF Capability .........................12
   3. YANG Module ....................................................13
   4. IANA Considerations ............................................22
      4.1. Registrations for New URI and YANG Module .................22
      4.2. Media Types ...............................................23
           4.2.1. Media Type "application/yang-patch+xml" ............23
           4.2.2. Media Type "application/yang-patch+json" ...........24
      4.3. RESTCONF Capability URNs ..................................25
   5. Security Considerations ........................................25
   6. References .....................................................26
      6.1. Normative References ......................................26
      6.2. Informative References ....................................27
   Appendix A. Example YANG Module ...................................28
     A.1. YANG Patch Examples ........................................29
       A.1.1. Add Resources: Error ...................................29
       A.1.2. Add Resources: Success .................................33
       A.1.3. Insert List Entry ......................................35
       A.1.4. Move List Entry ........................................36
       A.1.5. Edit Datastore Resource ................................37
   Acknowledgements ..................................................39
   Authors' Addresses ................................................39

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