Network Working Group A. Huang Feng
Internet-Draft P. Francois
Intended status: Standards Track INSA-Lyon
Expires: 7 April 2025 K. Watsen
Watsen Networks
4 October 2024
YANG Groupings for UDP Clients and UDP Servers
draft-ietf-netconf-udp-client-server-04
Abstract
This document defines two YANG 1.1 modules to support the
configuration of UDP clients and UDP servers.
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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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. The "ietf-udp-client" Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2.1. Data Model Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.2. Example Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.3. YANG Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. The "ietf-udp-server" Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.1. Data Model Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.2. Example Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.3. YANG Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
5. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
5.1. URI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
5.2. YANG module name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
6. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
7. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
7.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
7.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
1. Introduction
This document defines two YANG 1.1 [RFC7950] modules to support the
configuration of UDP clients and UDP servers [RFC768]. The data
models defined by the these modules may be used directly (e.g., to
define a specific UDP client or UDP server) or in conjunction with
the configuration defined for higher level protocols that depend on
UDP.
2. The "ietf-udp-client" Module
This section defines a YANG 1.1 module called "ietf-udp-client".
This YANG module defines the "udp-client-grouping" grouping for
configuring UDP clients with remote server information.
Section 2.1 provides an overview of the YANG module for configuring
UDP clients. An example of usage is illustrated in Section 2.2 and
Section 2.3 defines the YANG module itself.
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2.1. Data Model Overview
This section provides an overview of the features and groupings
defined in the "ietf-udp-client" YANG module.
2.1.1. Features
The "ietf-udp-client" module defines only one "feature" statements:
Features:
+-- local-binding-supported
This "local-binding-supported" feature indicates that the client
supports configuring local bindings (i.e., the local address and
local port) for UDP clients.
The diagram above uses syntax that is similar to but not defined in
[RFC8340].
2.1.2. The "udp-client-grouping" Grouping
The following tree diagram [RFC8340] illustrates the tree structure
of the "udp-client-grouping" grouping:
module: ietf-udp-client
grouping udp-client-grouping:
+-- remote-address inet:host
+-- remote-port? inet:port-number
+-- local-address? inet:ip-address {local-binding-supported}?
+-- local-port? inet:port-number {local-binding-supported}?
Comments:
* The "remote-address" node, which is mandatory, may be configured
as an IPv4 address, an IPv6 address, or a hostname.
* The "remote-port" leaf is defined with neither a "default" nor a
"mandatory" statement. YANG modules using this grouping SHOULD
refine the grouping with a "default" statement, when the port
number is well-known (e.g., a port number allocated by IANA), or
with a "mandatory" statement, if a port number needs to always be
configured. The SHOULD can be ignored when the port number is
neither well-known nor mandatory to configure, such as might be
the case when this grouping is used by another grouping.
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* The "local-address" node, which is enabled by the "local-binding-
supported" feature, may be configured as an IPv4 address, an IPv6
address, or a wildcard value.
* The "local-port" node, which is enabled by the "local-binding-
supported" feature, is not mandatory. Its default value is "0",
indicating that the operating system can pick an arbitrary port
number.
2.2. Example Usage
This section presents an example of usage of the "udp-client-
grouping" grouping.
www.example.com
10000
192.0.2.2
12345
2.3. YANG Module
This module imports types defined in [RFC6991].
file "ietf-udp-client@2024-10-04"
module ietf-udp-client {
yang-version 1.1;
namespace
"urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-udp-client";
prefix udpc;
import ietf-inet-types {
prefix inet;
reference
"RFC 6991: Common YANG Data Types";
}
organization "IETF NETCONF (Network Configuration) Working Group";
contact
"WG Web:
WG List:
Authors: Alex Huang Feng
Pierre Francois
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";
description
"Defines a generic grouping for UDP-based client applications.
Copyright (c) 2024 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 Revised BSD License set forth in Section
4.c of the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents
(https://trustee.ietf.org/license-info).
This version of this YANG module is part of RFC-to-be; see the RFC
itself for full legal notices.";
revision 2024-10-04 {
description
"Initial revision";
reference
"RFC-to-be: YANG Groupings for UDP Clients and UDP Servers";
}
feature local-binding-supported {
description
"Indicates that the UDP client supports configuring local
bindings (i.e., the local address and local port) for
UDP clients.";
}
grouping udp-client-grouping {
description
"A reusable grouping for configuring a UDP client.
Note that this grouping uses fairly typical descendant
node names such that a stack of 'uses' statements will
have name conflicts. It is intended that the consuming
data model will resolve the issue (e.g., by wrapping
the 'uses' statement in a container called
'udp-client-parameters'). This model purposely does
not do this itself so as to provide maximum flexibility
to consuming models.";
leaf remote-address {
type inet:host;
mandatory true;
description
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"The IP address or hostname of the remote UDP server.
If a domain name is configured, then the DNS resolution should
happen on each connection attempt. If the DNS resolution
results in multiple IP addresses, the IP addresses
are tried according to local preference order until
a connection has been established or until all IP
addresses have failed.";
}
leaf remote-port {
type inet:port-number;
description
"The port number of the remote UDP server.";
}
leaf local-address {
if-feature "local-binding-supported";
type inet:ip-address;
description
"The local IP address to bind to when sending UDP
messages to the remote server. INADDR_ANY ('0.0.0.0') or
INADDR6_ANY ('0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0' a.k.a. '::') may be used
so that the server can bind to any IPv4 or IPv6 address.";
}
leaf local-port {
if-feature "local-binding-supported";
type inet:port-number;
default "0";
description
"The local port number to bind to when sending UDP
messages to the remote server. The port number '0',
which is the default value, indicates that any available
local port number may be used.";
}
}
}
3. The "ietf-udp-server" Module
This section defines a YANG 1.1 module called "ietf-udp-server".
This YANG module defines the "udp-server-grouping" grouping for
configuring UDP servers.
Section 3.1 provides an overview of the YANG module for configuring
UDP servers. An example of usage is illustrated in Section 3.2 and
Section 3.3 defines the YANG module itself.
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3.1. Data Model Overview
This section provides an overview of the groupings defined in the
"ietf-udp-server" module.
3.1.1. The "udp-server-grouping" Grouping
The following tree diagram [RFC8340] illustrates the structure of
"udp-server-grouping" grouping:
module: ietf-udp-server
grouping udp-server-grouping:
+-- local-bind* [local-address]
+-- local-address inet:ip-address
+-- local-port? inet:port-number
Comments:
* The "local-address" node, which is mandatory, may be configured as
an IPv4 address, an IPv6 address, or a wildcard value.
* The "local-port" leaf is defined with neither a "default" nor a
"mandatory" statement. YANG modules using this grouping SHOULD
refine the grouping with a "default" statement, when the port
number is well-known (e.g., a port number allocated by IANA), or
with a "mandatory" statement, if a port number needs to always be
configured. The SHOULD can be ignored when the port number is
neither well-known nor mandatory to configure, such as might be
the case when this grouping is used by another grouping.
3.2. Example Usage
This section presents two examples of usage of the "udp-server-
grouping" grouping.
This example shows an example of a server configured for listening to
an IPv4 address:
192.0.2.2
49152
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This example shows an example of a server configured to listen to an
IPv4 and IPv6 together:
192.0.2.2
49152
2001:db8::0
49153
3.3. YANG Module
The "ietf-udp-server" imports types defined in [RFC6991].
file "ietf-udp-server@2024-10-04.yang"
module ietf-udp-server {
yang-version 1.1;
namespace "urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-udp-server";
prefix udps;
import ietf-inet-types {
prefix inet;
reference
"RFC 6991: Common YANG Data Types";
}
organization
"IETF NETCONF (Network Configuration) Working Group";
contact
"WG Web:
WG List:
Authors: Alex Huang Feng
Pierre Francois
";
description
"Defines a generic grouping for UDP-based server applications.
Copyright (c) 2024 IETF Trust and the persons identified as
authors of the code. All rights reserved.
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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 Revised BSD License set forth in Section
4.c of the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents
(https://trustee.ietf.org/license-info).
This version of this YANG module is part of RFC-to-be; see the RFC
itself for full legal notices.";
revision 2024-10-04 {
description
"Initial revision";
reference
"RFC-to-be: YANG Groupings for UDP Clients and UDP Servers";
}
grouping udp-server-grouping {
description
"Provides a reusable grouping for configuring a UDP server.
Note that this grouping uses fairly typical descendant
node names such that a stack of 'uses' statements will
have name conflicts. It is intended that the consuming
data model will resolve the issue (e.g., by wrapping
the 'uses' statement in a container called
'udp-server-parameters'). This model purposely does
not do this itself so as to provide maximum flexibility
to consuming models.";
list local-bind {
key "local-address";
min-elements 1;
description
"A list of bind (listen) points for this server
instance. A server instance may have multiple
bind points to support, e.g., the same port in
different address families or different ports
in the same address family.";
leaf local-address {
type inet:ip-address;
mandatory true;
description
"The local IP address to listen on for incoming
UDP messages. To configure listening
on all IPv4 addresses the value must be '0.0.0.0'
(INADDR_ANY). To configure listening on all IPv6
addresses the value must be '::' (INADDR6_ANY).";
}
leaf local-port {
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type inet:port-number;
description
"The local port number to listen on for incoming UDP
messages.";
}
}
}
}
4. Security Considerations
This section uses the template described in Section 3.7 of
[I-D.ietf-netmod-rfc8407bis].
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]. These network management
protocols are required to use a secure transport layer and mutual
authentication, e.g., SSH [RFC6242] without the "none" authentication
option, Transport Layer Security (TLS) [RFC8446] with mutual X.509
authentication, and HTTPS with HTTP authentication (Section 11 of
[RFC9110]).
The Network Configuration Access Control Model (NACM) [RFC8341]
provides the means to restrict access for particular NETCONF or
RESTCONF users to a preconfigured subset of all available NETCONF or
RESTCONF protocol operations and content.
The YANG module defines a set of identities, types, and groupings.
These nodes are intended to be reused by other YANG modules. The
module by itself does not expose any data nodes that are writable,
data nodes that contain read-only state, or RPCs. As such, there are
no additional security issues related to the YANG module that need to
be considered.
Modules that use the groupings that are defined in this document
should identify the corresponding security considerations. For
example, reusing some of these groupings will expose privacy-related
information (e.g., 'node-example').
5. IANA Considerations
This document describes the URIs from IETF XML Registry and the
registration of a two new YANG module names
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5.1. URI
IANA is requested to assign two new URIs from the IETF XML Registry
[RFC3688]. The following two URIs are suggested:
URI: urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-udp-client
Registrant Contact: The IESG.
XML: N/A; the requested URI is an XML namespace.
URI: urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-udp-server
Registrant Contact: The IESG.
XML: N/A; the requested URI is an XML namespace.
5.2. YANG module name
This document also requests IANA to register the following YANG
modules in the YANG Module Names registry [RFC6020] within the "YANG
Parameters" registry group:
name: ietf-udp-client
namespace: urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-udp-client
prefix: udpc
maintained by IANA? N
reference: RFC-to-be
name: ietf-udp-server
namespace: urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-udp-server
prefix: udps
maintained by IANA? N
reference: RFC-to-be
6. Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank Mohamed Boucadair, Benoit Claise,
Qiufang Ma and Qin Wu for their review and valuable comments.
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,
.
[RFC3688] Mealling, M., "The IETF XML Registry", BCP 81, RFC 3688,
DOI 10.17487/RFC3688, January 2004,
.
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[RFC6020] Bjorklund, M., Ed., "YANG - A Data Modeling Language for
the Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF)", RFC 6020,
DOI 10.17487/RFC6020, October 2010,
.
[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,
.
[RFC6242] Wasserman, M., "Using the NETCONF Protocol over Secure
Shell (SSH)", RFC 6242, DOI 10.17487/RFC6242, June 2011,
.
[RFC6991] Schoenwaelder, J., Ed., "Common YANG Data Types",
RFC 6991, DOI 10.17487/RFC6991, July 2013,
.
[RFC768] Postel, J., "User Datagram Protocol", STD 6, RFC 768,
DOI 10.17487/RFC0768, August 1980,
.
[RFC7950] Bjorklund, M., Ed., "The YANG 1.1 Data Modeling Language",
RFC 7950, DOI 10.17487/RFC7950, August 2016,
.
[RFC8040] Bierman, A., Bjorklund, M., and K. Watsen, "RESTCONF
Protocol", RFC 8040, DOI 10.17487/RFC8040, January 2017,
.
[RFC8174] Leiba, B., "Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC
2119 Key Words", BCP 14, RFC 8174, DOI 10.17487/RFC8174,
May 2017, .
[RFC8340] Bjorklund, M. and L. Berger, Ed., "YANG Tree Diagrams",
BCP 215, RFC 8340, DOI 10.17487/RFC8340, March 2018,
.
[RFC8341] Bierman, A. and M. Bjorklund, "Network Configuration
Access Control Model", STD 91, RFC 8341,
DOI 10.17487/RFC8341, March 2018,
.
[RFC8446] Rescorla, E., "The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol
Version 1.3", RFC 8446, DOI 10.17487/RFC8446, August 2018,
.
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[RFC9110] Fielding, R., Ed., Nottingham, M., Ed., and J. Reschke,
Ed., "HTTP Semantics", STD 97, RFC 9110,
DOI 10.17487/RFC9110, June 2022,
.
7.2. Informative References
[I-D.ietf-netmod-rfc8407bis]
Bierman, A., Boucadair, M., and Q. Wu, "Guidelines for
Authors and Reviewers of Documents Containing YANG Data
Models", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-
netmod-rfc8407bis-17, 27 September 2024,
.
Authors' Addresses
Alex Huang Feng
INSA-Lyon
Lyon
France
Email: alex.huang-feng@insa-lyon.fr
Pierre Francois
INSA-Lyon
Lyon
France
Email: pierre.francois@insa-lyon.fr
Kent Watsen
Watsen Networks
Email: kent+ietf@watsen.net
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