Re: [netconf] WGLC: draft-ietf-netconf-https-notif-06

[Kent Watsen <[e-mail]>]

Hi Eric,


> The intent of my comment was mainly to assist the understandability between drafts.   Subscription state change notifications are a part of RFC8639.  

Assisting understandability is good!  :)


> This draft's Section 1.1 Applicability statement *totally appropriately* notes that only a subset of RFC8639 constructs are applicable.

The -06 "applicability statement” was removed in -07.

-07 also has an “applicability” section (Section 3.1), but it regards an entirely different matter.  That said, this “applicability” section has also been removed (or will be, when -08 is posted), per comments from Martin.


> As a result subscription state change notifications are not required when leveraging this specification.
> If there is a minimum set of subscription state change notifications required or desired, it would be good to list them.  I suspect there are not (as per the Applicability Statement).  Based on this, I believe it be worth listing some implications of not having the subscription state change notifications in the Security Considerations section.  E.g., not sending a <subscription-modified> might mean a receiver can't be sure that a compliant publisher is sending the full set of events expected.   Such a statement would make it easily apparent to an implementer of the differences in functionality delivered as they choose which RFCs to support.


RFC 8639 needs to state what notifications are required by valid implementations.  The notif drafts MUST NOT limit any notifications from being sent.  If there are Security Considerations related to certain notifications not being sent, they should be stated in RFC 8639.

Stated differently, the “notif” drafts define effectively *dumb* transport-level protocols.  If higher-level logic is layered on top of raw notifications, considerations for if certain notifications are *not* sent needs to be defined in the higher-level documents.

Does this make sense, or do you mean something else?  Please provide specific text that you are hoping to see included.


K.