Re: [Netconf] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC8072 (5131)

[Benoit Claise <[e-mail]>]

Dear YANG Patch Media Type authors,

What do you think of this proposed errata?

Regards, B.
> The following errata report has been submitted for RFC8072,
> "YANG Patch Media Type".
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> You may review the report below and at:
> http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid5131
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> Type: Technical
> Reported by: Robert Wilton <[e-mail]>
>
> Section: 2.2
>
> Original Text
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> Regarding section 2.2 of RFC 8072, the third paragraph states:
>
>
>                                         ... If the edit does not identify
>      any existing resource instance and the operation for the edit is not
>      "create", then the request MUST NOT be processed and a "404 Not
>      Found" error response MUST be sent by the server.
>
> Corrected Text
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>                                        ... If the edit does not identify
>     any existing resource instance and the operation for the edit is
>     "delete" or "move" then the request MUST NOT be processed and a
>     "404 Not Found" error response MUST be sent by the server.
>
> Notes
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> As per the second paragraph of section 2.2 of RFC 8072, the operations are expected to mirror the semantics of the "operation" attribute described in Section 7.2 of [RFC6241].
>
> The spec also doesn't specify what happens if it is a "create" operation and the resource already exists.  It should probably also state that "400 Bad Request" is returned.
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> RFC8072 (draft-ietf-netconf-yang-patch-14)
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> Title               : YANG Patch Media Type
> Publication Date    : February 2017
> Author(s)           : A. Bierman, M. Bjorklund, K. Watsen
> Category            : PROPOSED STANDARD
> Source              : Network Configuration
> Area                : Operations and Management
> Stream              : IETF
> Verifying Party     : IESG
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