| NETCONF | G. Zheng |
| Internet-Draft | T. Zhou |
| Intended status: Standards Track | Huawei |
| Expires: January 11, 2021 | T. Graf |
| Swisscom | |
| P. Francois | |
| INSA-Lyon | |
| P. Lucente | |
| NTT | |
| July 10, 2020 |
UDP-based Transport for Configured Subscriptions
draft-unyte-netconf-udp-notif-00
This document describes an UDP-based notification mechanism to collect data from networking devices. A shim header is proposed to facilitate the streaming of data directly from line cards to a collector. The objective is to rely on a lightweight approach to allow for higher frequency and better transit performance compared to already established notification mechanisms.
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.
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Sub-Notif defines a mechanism that lets a collector subscribe to the publication of YANG-defined data maintained in a YANG datastore. The mechanism separates the management and control of subscriptions from the transport used to deliver the data. Three transport mechanisms, namely NETCONF transport, RESTCONF transport, and HTTPS transport have been defined so far for such notification messages.
While powerful in its features and general in their architecture, the currently available transport mechanisms need to be complemented to support data publications at high velocity from devices that feature a distributed architecture. The currently available transports are based on TCP and lack the efficiency needed to continuously send notifications at high velocity.
This document specifies a transport option for Sub-Notif that leverages UDP. Specifically, it facilitates the distributed data collection mechanism described in [I-D.unyte-netconf-distributed-notif]. In the case of data originating from multiple line cards, centralized designs require data to be internally forwarded from those line cards to the push server, presumably on a route processor, which then combines the individual data items into a single consolidated stream. The centralized data collection mechanism can result in a performance bottleneck, especially when large amounts of data are involved.
What is needed is the support for a mechanism that allows for directly pushing multiple substreams, e.g. one from each line card, without passing them through an additional processing stage for internal consolidation. The proposed UDP-based transport allows for such a distributed data collection approach.
The transport described in this document can be used for transmitting notification messages over both IPv4 and IPv6.
This document describes the notification mechanism. It is intended to be used in conjunction with [RFC8639], extended by [I-D.unyte-netconf-distributed-notif].
Section 2 describes the control of the proposed transport mechanism. Section 3 details the notification mechanism and message format. Section 4 discusses congestion control. Section 5 covers the applicability of the proposed mechanism.
This section describes how the proposed mechanism can be controlled using subscription channels based on NETCONF or RESTCONF.
Following the usual approach of Sub-Notif, configured subscriptions contain the location information of all the receivers, including the IP address and the port number, so that the publisher can actively send UDP-Notif messages to the corresponding receivers.
Note that receivers MAY NOT be already up and running when the configuration of the subscription takes effect on the monitored device. The first message MUST be a separate subscription-started notification to indicate the Receiver that the stream has started flowing. Then, the notifications can be sent immediately without delay. All the subscription state notifications, as defined in [RFC8639], MUST be encapsulated in separate notification messages.
In this section, we specify the UDP-Notif Transport behaviour. Section 3.1 describes the general design of the solution. Section 3.2 specifies the UDP-Notif message format. Section 3.3 describes a generic optional sub TLV format. Section 3.3.1 uses such options to provide a fragmentation solution for large UDP-Notif message payloads. Section 3.4 describes the encoding of the message payload.
As specified in Sub-Notif, the telemetry data is encapsulated in the NETCONF/RESTCONF notification message, which is then encapsulated and carried using transport protocols such as TLS or HTTP2. Figure 1 illustrates the the structure of an UDP-Notif message.
+-------+ +--------------+ +--------------+ | UDP | | Message | | Notification | | | | Header | | Message | +-------+ +--------------+ +--------------+
Figure 1: UDP-Notif Message Overview
The UDP-Notif Message Header contains information that facilitate the message transmission before deserializing the notification message. The data format is shown in Figure 2.
0 1 2 3 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 +-------+-------+---------------+-------------------------------+ | Vers. | ET | Header Len | Message Length | +-------+-------+---------------+-------------------------------+ | Message-Generator-ID | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | Message ID | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ ~ Options ~ +---------------------------------------------------------------+
Figure 2: UDP-Notif Message Header Format
The Message Header contains the following field:
All the options are defined with the following format, illustrated in Figure 3.
0 1 2 3 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 +---------------+---------------+-------------------------------- | Type | Length | Variable-length data +---------------+---------------+--------------------------------
Figure 3: Generic Option Format
The UDP payload length is limited to 65535. Application level headers will make the actual payload shorter. Even though binary encodings such as GPB and CBOR may not require more space than what is left, more voluminous encodings such as JSON and XML may suffer from this size limitation. Although IPv4 and IPv6 senders can fragment outgoing packets exceeding their Maximum Transmission Unit(MTU), fragmented IP packets may not be desired for operational and performance reasons.
Consequently, implementations of the mechanism SHOULD provide a configurable max-fragment-size option to control the maximum size of a payload.
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+---------------+---------------+
| Type | Length |
+-------------------------------+---------------+-------------+-+
| Fragment Number |L|
+-------------------------------------------------------------+-+
Figure 4: Fragmentation Option Format
The Fragmentation Option is to be included when the message content is fragmented into multiple pieces. Different fragments of one message share the same Message ID. An illustration is provided in Figure 4. The fields of this TLV are:
UDP-Notif message data can be encoded in GPB, CBOR, XML or JSON format. It is conceivable that additional encodings may be supported in the future. This can be accomplished by augmenting the subscription data model with additional identity statements used to refer to requested encodings.
Implementation MAY support multiple encoding methods per subscription. When bundled notifications are supported between the publisher and the receiver, only subscribed notifications with the same encoding can be bundled in a given message.
Congestion control mechanisms that respond to congestion by reducing traffic rates and establish a degree of fairness between flows that share the same path are vital to the stable operation of the Internet [RFC2914]. While efficient, UDP has no built-in congestion control mechanism. Because streaming telemetry can generate unlimited amounts of data, transferring this data over UDP may be considered problematic. It is not recommended to use the proposed mechanism over congestion-sensitive network paths. The only environments where UDP-Notif is expected to be used are managed networks. The deployments require that the network path has been explicitly provisioned to handle the traffic through traffic engineering mechanisms, such as rate limiting or capacity reservations. The UDP-Notif Message ID can be used to deduce congestion based on packet loss detection. Hence the collector can notify the device to use a lower streaming rate. The interaction to control the streaming rate on the device is out of the scope of this document.
The target application for UDP-Notif is the collection of data-plane information. The lack of reliability of the data streaming mechanism is thus considered acceptable as the mechanism is to be used in controlled environments, mitigating the risk of information loss, while allowing for publication of very large amounts of data. Moreover, in this context, sporadic events when incomplete data collection is provided is not critical for the proper management of the network.
The YANG model defined in Section 9 has two leafs augmented into one place of Sub-Notif, plus one identity.
module: ietf-udp-subscribed-notifications
augment /sn:subscriptions/sn:subscription/sn:receivers/sn:receiver:
+--rw address inet:ip-address
+--rw port inet:port-number
+--rw enable-fragment? boolean
+--rw max-fragment-size? uint32
<CODE BEGINS> file "ietf-udp-notif@2020-04-27.yang"
module ietf-udp-notif {
yang-version 1.1;
namespace
"urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-udp-notif";
prefix un;
import ietf-subscribed-notifications {
prefix sn;
reference
"RFC 8639: Subscription to YANG Notifications";
}
import ietf-inet-types {
prefix inet;
reference
"RFC 6991: Common YANG Data Types";
}
organization "IETF NETCONF (Network Configuration) Working Group";
contact
"WG Web: <http:/tools.ietf.org/wg/netconf/>
WG List: <mailto:netconf@ietf.org>
Authors: Guangying Zheng
<mailto:zhengguangying@huawei.com>
Tianran Zhou
<mailto:zhoutianran@huawei.com>
Thomas Graf
<mailto:thomas.graf@swisscom.com>
Pierre Francois
<mailto:pierre.francois@insa-lyon.fr>
Paolo Lucente
<mailto:paolo@ntt.net>";
description
"Defines UDP-Notif as a supported transport for subscribed
event notifications.
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
(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 2020-04-27 {
description
"Initial version";
reference
"RFC XXXX: UDP-based Notifications for Streaming Telemetry";
}
identity udp-notif {
base sn:transport;
description
"UDP-Notif is used as transport for notification messages
and state change notifications.";
}
identity encode-cbor {
base sn:encoding;
description
"Encode data using CBOR as described in RFC 7049.";
reference
"RFC 7049: Concise Binary Object Representation";
}
identity encode-gpb {
base sn:encoding;
description
"Encode data using GPB.";
}
grouping target-receiver {
description
"Provides a reusable description of a UDP-Notif target receiver.";
leaf address {
type inet:ip-address;
mandatory true;
description
"IP address of target UDP-Notif receiver, which can be an
IPv4 address or an IPV6 address.";
}
leaf port {
type inet:port-number;
mandatory true;
description
"Port number of target UDP-Notif receiver, if not specified,
the system should use default port number.";
}
leaf enable-fragment {
type boolean;
default false;
description
"The switch for the fragment feature. When disabled, the
publisher will not allow fragment for a very large data";
}
leaf max-fragment-size {
when "../enable-fragment = true";
type uint32;
description "UDP-Notif provides a configurable max-fragment-size
to control the size of each message.";
}
}
augment "/sn:subscriptions/sn:subscription/sn:receivers/sn:receiver" {
description
"This augmentation allows UDP-Notif specific parameters to be
exposed for a subscription.";
uses target-receiver;
}
}
<CODE ENDS>
This RFC requests that IANA assigns one UDP port number in the "Registered Port Numbers" range with the service name "udp-notif". This port will be the default port for the UDP-based notification Streaming Telemetry (UDP-Notif) for NETCONF and RESTCONF. Below is the registration template following the rules of [RFC6335].
Service Name: udp-notif
Transport Protocol(s): UDP
Assignee: IESG <iesg@ietf.org>
Contact: IETF Chair <chair@ietf.org>
Description: UDP-based Publication Streaming Telemetry
Reference: RFC XXXX
Port Number: PORT-X
IANA is requested to assign a new URI from the IETF XML Registry. The following URI is suggested:
URI: urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-udp-notif Registrant Contact: The IESG. XML: N/A; the requested URI is an XML namespace.
This document also requests a new YANG module name in the YANG Module Names registry with the following suggestion:
name: ietf-udp-notif namespace: urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-udp-notif prefix: un reference: RFC XXXX
TBD
The authors of this documents would like to thank Alexander Clemm, Eric Voit, Huiyang Yang, Kent Watsen, Mahesh Jethanandani, Stephane Frenot, Timothy Carey, Tim Jenkins, and Yunan Gu for their constructive suggestions for improving this document.
| [I-D.ietf-netconf-https-notif] | Jethanandani, M. and K. Watsen, "An HTTPS-based Transport for Configured Subscriptions", Internet-Draft draft-ietf-netconf-https-notif-02, March 2020. |
| [I-D.ietf-netconf-notification-messages] | Voit, E., Jenkins, T., Birkholz, H., Bierman, A. and A. Clemm, "Notification Message Headers and Bundles", Internet-Draft draft-ietf-netconf-notification-messages-08, November 2019. |
| [I-D.unyte-netconf-distributed-notif] | Zhou, T., Zheng, G., Voit, E., Graf, T. and P. Francois, "Subscription to Distributed Notifications", Internet-Draft draft-unyte-netconf-distributed-notif-00, June 2020. |