[netconf] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC8040 (6215)

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Subject: [netconf] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC8040 (6215)
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The following errata report has been submitted for RFC8040,
"RESTCONF Protocol".

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You may review the report below and at:
https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid6215

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Type: Technical
Reported by: Kent Watsen <kent+ietf@watsen.net>

Section: 4.3

Original Text
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   If a retrieval request for a data resource representing a YANG
   leaf-list or list object identifies more than one instance and XML
   encoding is used in the response, then an error response containing a
   "400 Bad Request" status-line MUST be returned by the server.  The
   error-tag value "invalid-value" is used in this case.  Note that a
   non-configuration list is not required to define any keys.  In this
   case, the retrieval of a single list instance is not possible.


Corrected Text
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Notes
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This whole paragraph should be removed because, according to Section 3.5 (Data Resource), the "list" and "leaf-leaf" themselves are not a data resources:

   A data resource represents a YANG data node that is a descendant node
   of a datastore resource.  Each YANG-defined data node can be uniquely
   targeted by the request-line of an HTTP method.  Containers, leafs,
   leaf-list entries, list entries, anydata nodes, and anyxml nodes are
   data resources.

No GET, PUT, POST, DELETE, or PATCH example in the RFC illustrates an operation on a "list" or "leaf-list" directly (i.e., without a key, which would then represent an element of the list or leaf-list).

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RFC8040 (draft-ietf-netconf-restconf-18)
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Title               : RESTCONF Protocol
Publication Date    : January 2017
Author(s)           : A. Bierman, M. Bjorklund, K. Watsen
Category            : PROPOSED STANDARD
Source              : Network Configuration
Area                : Operations and Management
Stream              : IETF
Verifying Party     : IESG