draft-ietf-netconf-distributed-notif-08.txt

NETCONF                                                          T. Zhou
Internet-Draft                                                  G. Zheng
Intended status: Standards Track                                  Huawei
Expires: 9 April 2024                                            E. Voit
                                                           Cisco Systems
                                                                 T. Graf
                                                                Swisscom
                                                             P. Francois
                                                               INSA-Lyon
                                                          7 October 2023


               Subscription to Distributed Notifications
                draft-ietf-netconf-distributed-notif-08

Abstract

   This document describes extensions to the YANG notifications
   subscription to allow metrics being published directly from
   processors on line cards to target receivers, while subscription is
   still maintained at the route processor in a distributed forwarding
   system.

Requirements Language

   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.

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Copyright Notice

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   2.  Terminologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   3.  Motivation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   4.  Solution Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   5.  Subscription Decomposition  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   6.  Publication Composition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   7.  Subscription State Change Notifications . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   8.  Publisher Configurations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   9.  YANG Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   10. YANG Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   11. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
   12. Implementation Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
     12.1.  Open Source Publisher  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
     12.2.  Open Source Receiver Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
     12.3.  Pmacct Data Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
     12.4.  Huawei VRP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
   13. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
   14. Contributors  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
   15. Acknowledgements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
   16. References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
     16.1.  Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
     16.2.  Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
   Appendix A.  Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14
     A.1.  Dynamic Subscription  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14
     A.2.  Configured Subscription . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  18
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  20









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1.  Introduction

   The mechanism to support a subscription of a continuous and
   customized stream of updates from a YANG datastore [RFC8342] is
   defined in [RFC8639] and [RFC8641].  Requirements for Subscription to
   YANG Datastores are defined in [RFC7923].

   By streaming data from publishers to receivers, much better
   performance and fine-grained sampling can be achieved than with
   polling.  In a distributed forwarding system, the packet forwarding
   is delegated to multiple processors on line cards.  To not to
   overwhelm the route processor resources, it is not uncommon that data
   records are published directly from processors on line cards to
   target Receivers to further increase efficiency on the routing
   system.

   This document complements the general subscription requirements
   defined in section 4.2.1 of [RFC7923] by the paragraph: A
   Subscription Service MAY support the ability to export from multiple
   software processes on a single routing system and expose the
   information which software process produced which message to maintain
   data integrity.

2.  Terminologies

   The following terms are defined in [RFC8639] and are not redefined
   here:

   Subscriber

   Publisher

   Receiver

   Subscription

   In addition, this document defines the following terms:

   Global Subscription: is the Subscription requested by the subscriber.
   It may be decomposed into multiple Component Subscriptions.

   Component Subscription: is the Subscription that defines a data
   source which is managed and controlled by a single Publisher.

   Global Capability: is the overall subscription capability that the
   group of Publishers can expose to the Subscriber.





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   Component Capability: is the subscription capability that each
   Publisher can expose to the Subscriber.

   Master: is the Publisher that interacts with the Subscriber to deal
   with the Global Subscription.  It decomposes the Global Subscription
   to multiple Component Subscriptions and interacts with the Agents.

   Agent: is the Publisher that interacts with the Master to deal with
   the Component Subscription and pushing the data to the Receiver.

   Node: is the Publisher that obtains and pushes the data to the
   Receiver.

   Message Publisher: is the Publisher that pushes the message to the
   Receiver.

   Message Publisher ID: A 32-bit identifier of the publishing process
   that is locally unique to the publisher node.  With this identifier
   the publishing process from where the message was published from can
   be uniquely identified.  Receivers SHOULD use the transport session
   and the Publisher ID field to separate different publisher streams
   originating from the same network node.

3.  Motivation

   Lost and corrupt YANG notification messages need to be recognized at
   the receiver to ensure data integrity even when multiple publisher
   processes publishing from the same transport session.

   To preserve data integrity down to the publisher process, the Message
   Publisher ID in the transport message header of the YANG notification
   message is introduced.  In case of UDP transport, this is described
   in Section 3.2 of UDP-based transport [I-D.ietf-netconf-udp-notif].

4.  Solution Overview

   Figure 1 below shows the distributed data export framework.

   A collector usually includes two components,

   *  the Subscriber generates the subscription instructions to express
      what and how the Receiver wants to receive the data;

   *  the Receiver is the target for the data publication.

   For one subscription, there can be one or more Receivers.  And the
   Subscriber does not necessarily share the same IP address as the
   Receivers.



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   In this framework, the Publisher pushes data to the Receiver
   according to the subscription.  The Publisher is either in the Master
   or Agent role.  The Master knows all the capabilities that his Agents
   can provide and exposes the Global Capability to the collector.  The
   Subscriber maintains the Global Subscription at the Master and
   disassembles the Global Subscription to multiple Component
   Subscriptions, depending which source data is needed.  The Component
   Subscriptions are then distributed to the corresponding Publisher
   Agents on route and processors on line cards.

   Publisher Agents collects metrics according to the Component
   Subscription, add its metadata, encapsulates, and pushes data to the
   Receiver where packets are reassembled and decapsulated.

                +-----------------------------------------+
                |        Collector        |-------------+ |
                |                        +------------+ | |
                |      +------------+    || Receiver  | | |
                |      | Subscriber |    |--------------+ |
                |      +-----^-+----+    +------------^   |
                |            | |                      |   |
                +-----------------------------------------+
                   Global    | | Global               |
                   Capability| | Subscription         |
                +-----------------------------------------+
                |            | |                      |   |
                |   +--------+-v-------------------+  |   |
                |   |       Publisher(Master)      |  |   |
                |   +--------^-+-------------------+  |   |
                |            | |                      |   |
                |            | |                      |   |
                |  Component | | Component       Push |   |
                |  Capability| | Subscription         |   |
                |   +--------+-v-------------------+  |   |
                |   |       Publisher(Agent)       +--+   |
                |   +------------------------------+      |
                |                                         |
                |            Network Node                 |
                +-----------------------------------------+

              Figure 1: The Distributed Data Export Framework

   Master and Agents interact with each other in several ways:

   *  Agents need to register at the Master at the beginning of their
      process life cycle.





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   *  Contracts are created between the Master and each Agent on the
      Component Capability, and the format for streaming data structure.

   *  The Master relays the component subscriptions to the Agents.

   *  The Agents announce the status of their Component Subscriptions to
      the Master.  The status of the overall subscription is maintained
      by the Master.  The Master is responsible for notifying the
      subscriber in case of problems with the Component Subscriptions.

   The technical mechanisms or protocols used for the coordination of
   operational information between Master and Agent is out-of-scope of
   this document.

5.  Subscription Decomposition

   The Collector can only subscribe to the Master.  This requires the
   Master to:

   1.  expose the Global Capability that can be served by multiple
       Publisher Agents;

   2.  disassemble the Global Subscription to multiple Component
       Subscriptions, and distribute them to the Publisher Agents of the
       corresponding metric sources so that they not overlap;

   3.  notify on changes when portions of a subscription moving between
       different Publisher Agents over time.

   And the Agent to:

   *  Inherit the Global Subscription properties from Publisher Master
      for its Component Subscription;

   *  share the same life-cycle as the Global Subscription;

   *  share the same Subscription ID as the Global Subscription.

6.  Publication Composition

   The Publisher Agent collects data and encapsulates the packets per
   Component Subscription.  The format and structure of the data records
   are defined by the YANG schema, so that the decomposition at the
   Receiver can benefit from the structured and hierarchical data
   records.






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   The Receiver is able to associate the YANG data records with
   Subscription ID [RFC8639] to the subscribed subscription and with
   Message Publisher ID to one of the publisher processes to enable
   message integrity.

   For the dynamic subscription, the output of the "establish-
   subscription" RPC defined in [RFC8639] MUST include a list of Message
   Publisher IDs to indicate how the Global Subscription is decomposed
   into several Component Subscriptions.

   The "subscription-started" and "subscription-modified" notification
   defined in [RFC8639] MUST also include a list of Message Publisher
   IDs to notify the current Publishers for the corresponding Global
   Subscription.

7.  Subscription State Change Notifications

   In addition to sending event records to Receivers, the Master MUST
   also send subscription state change notifications [RFC8639] when
   events related to subscription management have occurred.  All the
   subscription state change notifications MUST be delivered by the
   Master.

   When the subscription decomposition result changed, the
   "subscription-modified" notification MUST be sent to indicate the new
   list of Publishers.

8.  Publisher Configurations

   This document assumes that all Publisher Agents are preconfigured to
   push data.  The actual working Publisher Agents are selected based on
   the subscription decomposition result.

   All Publisher Agents share the same source IP address for data
   export.  For connectionless data transport such as UDP based
   transport [I-D.ietf-netconf-udp-notif] the same Layer 4 source port
   for data export can be used.  For connection based data transport
   such as HTTPS based transport [I-D.ietf-netconf-https-notif], each
   Publisher Agent MUST be able to acknowledge packet retrieval from
   Receivers, and therefore requires a dedicated Layer 4 source port per
   software process.

   The specific configuration on transports is described in the
   responsible documents.

9.  YANG Tree





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   module: ietf-distributed-notif

     augment /sn:subscriptions/sn:subscription:
       +--ro message-publisher-id*   uint32
     augment /sn:subscription-started:
       +--ro message-publisher-id*   uint32
     augment /sn:subscription-modified:
       +--ro message-publisher-id*   uint32
     augment /sn:establish-subscription/sn:output:
       +--ro message-publisher-id*   uint32

10.  YANG Module


   <CODE BEGINS> file "ietf-distributed-notif@2023-09-17.yang"
   module ietf-distributed-notif {
     yang-version 1.1;
     namespace
       "urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-distributed-notif";
     prefix dn;
     import ietf-subscribed-notifications {
       prefix sn;
     }

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

        Editor:   Tianran Zhou
                  <mailto:zhoutianran@huawei.com>

        Editor:   Guangying Zheng
                  <mailto:zhengguangying@huawei.com>";


     description
       "Defines augmentation for ietf-subscribed-notifications to
       enable the distributed publication with single subscription.

       Copyright (c) 2018 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



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       (https://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 2023-09-17 {
       description
         "Initial version";
       reference
         "RFC XXXX: Subscription to Distributed Notifications";
     }

     grouping message-publisher-ids {
       description
         "Provides a reusable list of message-publisher-ids.";

       leaf-list message-publisher-id {
         type uint32;
         config false;
         ordered-by user;
         description
           "Software process which created the message (e.g.,
            processor 1 on line card 1). This field is
            used to  notify the collector the working originator.";
       }
     }

     augment "/sn:subscriptions/sn:subscription" {
       description
         "This augmentation allows the Message
         Publisher ID to be exposed for a subscription.";

       uses message-publisher-ids;
     }

     augment "/sn:subscription-started" {
       description
         "This augmentation allows MSO specific parameters to be
          exposed for a subscription.";

       uses message-publisher-ids;
     }

     augment "/sn:subscription-modified" {
       description
         "This augmentation allows MSO specific parameters to be
          exposed for a subscription.";




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       uses message-publisher-ids;
     }

     augment "/sn:establish-subscription/sn:output" {
       description
         "This augmentation allows MSO specific parameters to be
          exposed for a subscription.";

       uses message-publisher-ids;
     }
   }
   <CODE ENDS>

11.  IANA Considerations

   This document registers the following namespace URI in the IETF XML
   Registry [RFC3688]:

      URI: urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-distributed-notif

      Registrant Contact: The IESG.

      XML: N/A; the requested URI is an XML namespace.

   This document registers the following YANG module in the YANG Module
   Names registry [RFC3688]:

      Name: ietf-distributed-notif

      Namespace: urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-distributed-notif

      Prefix: dn

      Reference: RFC XXXX

12.  Implementation Status

   Note to the RFC-Editor: Please remove this section before publishing.

12.1.  Open Source Publisher

   INSA Lyon implemented this document for a YANG Push publisher on
   UDP-based Transport for Configured Subscriptions
   [I-D.ietf-netconf-udp-notif] in an example implementation.

   The open source code can be obtained here: [INSA-Lyon-Publisher].





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12.2.  Open Source Receiver Library

   INSA Lyon implemented this document for a YANG Push receiver on
   UDP-based Transport for Configured Subscriptions
   [I-D.ietf-netconf-udp-notif] as a library.

   The open source code can be obtained here: [INSA-Lyon-Receiver].

12.3.  Pmacct Data Collection

   The open source YANG push receiver library has been integrated into
   the Pmacct open source Network Telemetry data collection.

12.4.  Huawei VRP

   Huawei implemented this document for a YANG Push publisher on
   UDP-based Transport for Configured Subscriptions
   [I-D.ietf-netconf-udp-notif] in their VRP platform.

13.  Security Considerations

   The YANG module specified in this document defines 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
   [RFC5246].

   The NETCONF Access Control Model (NACM) [RFC6536] provides the means
   to restrict access particulary for NETCONF or RESTCONF users to a
   preconfigured subset of all available NETCONF or RESTCONF protocol
   operations and content.

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

   *  /subscriptions/subscription/message-publisher-ids

   The entries in the two lists above will show where subscribed
   resources might be located on the publishers.  Access control MUST be
   set so that only someone with proper access permissions has the
   ability to access this resource.





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   Other Security Considerations is the same as those discussed in
   [RFC8639].

14.  Contributors

      Alexander Clemm
      Futurewai
      2330 Central Expressway
      Santa Clara
      California
      United States of America
      Email: ludwig@clemm.org

15.  Acknowledgements

   We thank Kent Watsen, Mahesh Jethanandani, Martin Bjorklund, Tim
   Carey, Qin Wu, Robert Wilton, Benoit Claise and Alex Huang Feng for
   their constructive suggestions for improving this document.

16.  References

16.1.  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,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2119>.

   [RFC3688]  Mealling, M., "The IETF XML Registry", BCP 81, RFC 3688,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC3688, January 2004,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3688>.

   [RFC5246]  Dierks, T. and E. Rescorla, "The Transport Layer Security
              (TLS) Protocol Version 1.2", RFC 5246,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC5246, August 2008,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5246>.

   [RFC6241]  Enns, R., Ed., Bjorklund, M., Ed., Schoenwaelder, J., Ed.,
              and A. Bierman, Ed., "Network Configuration Protocol
              (NETCONF)", RFC 6241, DOI 10.17487/RFC6241, June 2011,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6241>.

   [RFC6242]  Wasserman, M., "Using the NETCONF Protocol over Secure
              Shell (SSH)", RFC 6242, DOI 10.17487/RFC6242, June 2011,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6242>.






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   [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>.

   [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>.

   [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>.

   [RFC8174]  Leiba, B., "Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC
              2119 Key Words", BCP 14, RFC 8174, DOI 10.17487/RFC8174,
              May 2017, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8174>.

   [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,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8342>.

   [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,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8639>.

   [RFC8641]  Clemm, A. and E. Voit, "Subscription to YANG Notifications
              for Datastore Updates", RFC 8641, DOI 10.17487/RFC8641,
              September 2019, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8641>.

16.2.  Informative References

   [I-D.ietf-netconf-https-notif]
              Jethanandani, M. and K. Watsen, "An HTTPS-based Transport
              for YANG Notifications", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft,
              draft-ietf-netconf-https-notif-13, 4 November 2022,
              <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-netconf-
              https-notif-13>.

   [I-D.ietf-netconf-udp-notif]
              Zheng, G., Zhou, T., Graf, T., Francois, P., Feng, A. H.,
              and P. Lucente, "UDP-based Transport for Configured
              Subscriptions", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-
              ietf-netconf-udp-notif-10, 7 July 2023,
              <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-netconf-
              udp-notif-10>.



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   [INSA-Lyon-Publisher]
              "INSA Lyon, YANG Push publisher example implementation",
              <https://github.com/network-analytics/udp-notif-scapy>.

   [INSA-Lyon-Receiver]
              "INSA Lyon, YANG Push receiver library implementation",
              <https://github.com/network-analytics/udp-notif-
              c-collector>.

   [Paolo-Lucente-Pmacct]
              "Paolo Lucente, Pmacct open source Network Telemetry Data
              Collection", <https://github.com/pmacct/pmacct>.

   [RFC7011]  Claise, B., Ed., Trammell, B., Ed., and P. Aitken,
              "Specification of the IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX)
              Protocol for the Exchange of Flow Information", STD 77,
              RFC 7011, DOI 10.17487/RFC7011, September 2013,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7011>.

Appendix A.  Examples

   This appendix is non-normative.

A.1.  Dynamic Subscription

   Figure 2 shows a typical dynamic subscription to the network node
   with distributed data export capability.
























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   +-------------+                 +-------------+ +-------------+
   | Subscriber/ |                 |  Publisher  | |  Publisher  |
   | Receiver    |                 |  (Master)   | |  (Agent)    |
   +-------------+                 +------+------+ +------+------+
          |                               |               |
          | establish-subscription        |               |
          +------------------------------>+ component     |
          |                               | subscription  |
          | RPC Reply: OK, id #22         +-------------->+
          | Message Publisher ID [#1,#2]  |               |
          +<------------------------------+               |
          |                               |               |
          | notif-mesg, id #22            |               |
          | Message Publisher ID #1       |               |
          +<------------------------------+               |
          |                               |               |
          | notif-mesg, id#22             |               |
          | Message Publisher ID #2       |               |
          +<----------------------------------------------+
          |                               |               |
          | modify-subscription (id#22)   |               |
          +------------------------------>+ component     |
          |                               | subscription  |
          | RPC Reply: OK, id #22         +-------------->+
          +<------------------------------+               |
          |                               |               |
          | subscription-modified, id#22  |               |
          | Message Publisher ID [#1]     |               |
          +<------------------------------+               |
          |                               |               |
          | notif-mesg, id #22            |               |
          | Message Publisher ID  #1      |               |
          +<------------------------------+               |
          |                               |               |
          |                               |               |
          +                               +               +

                Figure 2: Call Flow for Dynamic Subscription

   A "establish-subscription" RPC request as per [RFC8641] is sent to
   the Master with a successful response.  An example of using NETCONF:










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   <netconf:rpc message-id="101"
      xmlns:netconf="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:netconf:base:1.0">
    <establish-subscription
       xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-subscribed-notifications"
       xmlns:yp="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-yang-push">
      <yp:datastore
           xmlns:ds="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-datastores">
        ds:operational
      </yp:datastore>
      <yp:datastore-xpath-filter
          xmlns:ex="https://example.com/sample-data/1.0">
        /ex:foo
      </yp:datastore-xpath-filter>
      <yp:periodic>
        <yp:period>500</yp:period>
      </yp:periodic>
     </establish-subscription>
    </netconf:rpc>

                 Figure 3: "establish-subscription" Request

   As the network node is able to fully satisfy the request, the request
   is given a subscription ID of 22.  The response as in Figure 4
   indicates that the subscription is decomposed into two component
   subscriptions which will be published by two message Message
   Publisher ID: #1 and #2.

   <rpc-reply message-id="101"
     xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:netconf:base:1.0">
     <id
      xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-subscribed-notifications">
        22
     </id>
     <message-publisher-id
      xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-subscribed-notifications>
        1
     </message-publisher-id>
     <message-publisher-id
      xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-subscribed-notifications>
        2
     </message-publisher-id>
   </rpc-reply>

          Figure 4: "establish-subscription" Positive RPC Response

   Then, both Publishers send notifications with the corresponding piece
   of data to the Receiver.




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   The subscriber may invoke the "modify-subscription" RPC for a
   subscription it previously established.  The RPC has no difference to
   the single publisher case as in [RFC8641].  Figure 5 provides an
   example where a subscriber attempts to modify the period and
   datastore XPath filter of a subscription using NETCONF.

        <rpc message-id="102"
          xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:netconf:base:1.0">
       <modify-subscription
           xmlns=
             "urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-subscribed-notifications"
           xmlns:yp="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-yang-push">
         <id>22</id>
         <yp:datastore
             xmlns:ds="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-datastores">
           ds:operational
         </yp:datastore>
         <yp:datastore-xpath-filter
             xmlns:ex="https://example.com/sample-data/1.0">
           /ex:bar
         </yp:datastore-xpath-filter>
         <yp:periodic>
           <yp:period>250</yp:period>
         </yp:periodic>
        </modify-subscription>
     </rpc>

                  Figure 5: "modify-subscription" Request

   If the modification is successfully accepted, the "subscription-
   modified" subscription state notification is sent to the subscriber
   by the Master.  The notification, Figure 6 for example, indicates the
   modified subscription is decomposed into one component subscription
   which will be published by message Message Publisher ID #1.

















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 <notification xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:netconf:notification:1.0">
 <eventTime>2007-09-01T10:00:00Z</eventTime>
 <subscription-modified
       xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-subscribed-notifications"
       xmlns:yp="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-yang-push">
     <id>22</id>
     <yp:datastore
         xmlns:ds="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-datastores">
       ds:operational
     </yp:datastore>
     <yp:datastore-xpath-filter
         xmlns:ex="https://example.com/sample-data/1.0">
       /ex:bar
     </yp:datastore-xpath-filter>
     <yp:periodic>
         <yp:period>250</yp:period>
     </yp:periodic>
     <message-publisher-id
     xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-subscribed-notificationss>
        1
     </message-publisher-id>
   </subscription-modified>
 </notification>

   Figure 6: "subscription-modified" Subscription State Notification


A.2.  Configured Subscription

   Figure 7 shows a typical configured subscription to the network node
   with distributed data export capability.




















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   +-------------+                 +-------------+ +-------------+
   | Receiver    |                 |  Publisher  | |  Publisher  |
   |             |                 |  (Master)   | |  (Agent)    |
   +------+------+                 +------+------+ +------+------+
          |                               |               |
          | subscription-started, id#39   |               |
          | Message Publisher ID [#1,#2]  |               |
          +<------------------------------+               |
          |                               |               |
          | notif-mesg, id#39             |               |
          | Message Publisher ID #1       |               |
          +<------------------------------+               |
          |                               |               |
          | notif-mesg, id#39             |               |
          | Message Publisher ID #2       |               |
          +<----------------------------------------------+
          |                               |               |
          |                               |               |
          |                               |               |

              Figure 7: Call Flow for Configured Subscription

   Before starting to push data, the "subscription-started" subscription
   state notification is sent to the Receiver.  The following example
   assumes the NETCONF transport has already established.  The
   notification indicates that the configured subscription is decomposed
   into two component subscriptions which will be published by two
   message Message Publisher IDs: #1 and #2.























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 <notification xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:netconf:notification:1.0">
   <eventTime>2007-09-01T10:00:00Z</eventTime>
   <subscription-started
       xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-subscribed-notifications"
       xmlns:yp="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-yang-push">
     <identifier>39</identifier>
     <yp:datastore
         xmlns:ds="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-datastores">
       ds:operational
     </yp:datastore>
     <yp:datastore-xpath-filter
         xmlns:ex="https://example.com/sample-data/1.0">
       /ex:foo
     </yp:datastore-xpath-filter>
     <yp:periodic>
         <yp:period>250</yp:period>
     </yp:periodic>
     <message-publisher-id
     xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-subscribed-notifications>
        1
     </message-publisher-id>
     <message-publisher-id
     xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-subscribed-notifications>
        2
     </message-publisher-id>
   </subscription-started>
 </notification>

    Figure 8: "subscription-started" Subscription State Notification

   Then, both Publishers send notifications with the corresponding data
   record to the Receiver.

Authors' Addresses

   Tianran Zhou
   Huawei
   156 Beiqing Rd., Haidian District
   Beijing
   China
   Email: zhoutianran@huawei.com










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   Guangying Zheng
   Huawei
   101 Yu-Hua-Tai Software Road
   Nanjing
   Jiangsu,
   China
   Email: zhengguangying@huawei.com


   Eric Voit
   Cisco Systems
   United States of America
   Email: evoit@cisco.com


   Thomas Graf
   Swisscom
   Binzring 17
   CH- Zuerich 8045
   Switzerland
   Email: thomas.graf@swisscom.com


   Pierre Francois
   INSA-Lyon
   Lyon
   France
   Email: pierre.francois@insa-lyon.fr























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