| Internet-Draft | NETCONF Error Registries | March 2026 |
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This document defines IANA registries for the NETCONF Error List and NETCONF Error Identities.¶
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In order to have a canonical source for all NETCONF Error and NETCONF Error Identities, two IANA registries are defined. These registries can be extended and updated as needed.¶
It is an advantage for protocol evolution to have canonical sources to extend, instead of a set of documents that need to be compiled and referenced.¶
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.¶
This document defines a registry for the NETCONF Error List defined in Appendix A of [RFC6241]. The name of the registry is "NETCONF Error List". The review policy for this registry is "IETF Review" [RFC5226]. The registry shall record the following for each entry:¶
error-tag, TBD¶
error-type, TBD¶
error-severity, TBD¶
error-info, auxilary information described as data nodes (XML tags).¶
Description¶
The reference for the document registering the value.¶
The initial contents of the registry is defined in [RFC6241] and inlined below:¶
error-tag: in-use
error-type: protocol, application
error-severity: error
error-info: none
Description: The request requires a resource that already is in
use.
error-tag: invalid-value
error-type: protocol, application
error-severity: error
error-info: none
Description: The request specifies an unacceptable value for one
or more parameters.
error-tag: too-big
error-type: transport, rpc, protocol, application
error-severity: error
error-info: none
Description: The request or response (that would be generated) is
too large for the implementation to handle.
error-tag: missing-attribute
error-type: rpc, protocol, application
error-severity: error
error-info: <bad-attribute> : name of the missing attribute
<bad-element> : name of the element that is supposed
to contain the missing attribute
Description: An expected attribute is missing.
error-tag: bad-attribute
error-type: rpc, protocol, application
error-severity: error
error-info: <bad-attribute> : name of the attribute w/ bad value
<bad-element> : name of the element that contains
the attribute with the bad value
Description: An attribute value is not correct; e.g., wrong type,
out of range, pattern mismatch.
¶
This document defines a registry for NETCONF Error Identities. The name of the registry is "NETCONF Error Identities". The review policy for this registry is "IETF Review" [RFC5226]. The registry shall record the following for each entry:¶
Identity name.¶
Base identity, if applicable.¶
Additional information.¶
The reference for the document registering the value.¶
The initial contents of the registry is defined in [RFC8639] and [RFC8641] and inlined below:¶
dscp-unavailable encoding-unsupported filter-unsupported insufficient-resources replay-unsupported filter-unsupported insufficient-resources no-such-subscription no-such-subscription datastore-not-subscribable unchanging-selection period-unsupported update-too-big synchronization-size¶
TODO acknowledge.¶