NETCONF R. Gagliano Internet-Draft Cisco Systems Intended status: Standards Track K. Larsson Expires: 7 January 2024 Deutsche Telekom AG J. Lindblad Cisco Systems 6 July 2023 RESTCONF Extension to support Trace Context Headers draft-rogaglia-netconf-restconf-trace-ctx-headers-00 Abstract This document extends the RESTCONF protocol in order to support trace context propagation as defined by the W3C. About This Document This note is to be removed before publishing as an RFC. The latest revision of this draft can be found at TBD. Status information for this document may be found at https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-rogaglia-netconf-restconf- trace-ctx-headers/. Discussion of this document takes place on the NETCONF Working Group mailing list (mailto:netconf@ietf.org), which is archived at https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/netmod/. Subscribe at https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/netconf/. Source for this draft and an issue tracker can be found at https://github.com/TBD. 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This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (https://trustee.ietf.org/ license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Revised BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Revised BSD License. Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.1. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2. RESTCONF Extensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.1. Errors handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.2. Trace Context header versionning . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 4. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 5. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 6. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 6.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 6.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Appendix A. Example RESTCONF calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Appendix B. Changes (to be deleted by RFC Editor) . . . . . . . 6 Appendix C. TO DO List (to be deleted by RFC Editor) . . . . . . 6 Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1. Introduction Network automation and management systems commonly consist of multiple sub-systems and together with the network devices they manage, they effectively form a distributed system. Distributed tracing is a methodology implemented by tracing tools to follow, analyze and debug operations, such as configuration transactions, across multiple distributed systems. An operation is uniquely identified by a trace-id and through a trace context, carries some metadata about the operation. Propagating this "trace context" between systems enables forming a coherent view of the entire operation as carried out by all involved systems. Gagliano, et al. Expires 7 January 2024 [Page 2] Internet-Draft rc_trace July 2023 The W3C has defined two HTTP headers (traceparent and tracestate) for context propagation that are useful for distributed systems like the ones defined in [RFC8309]. The goal of this document is to adopt this W3C specification for the RESTCONF protocol. This document does not define new HTTP extensions but makes those defined in [W3C-Trace-Context] optional headers for the RESTCONF protocol. In [I-D.draft-rogaglia-netconf-trace-ctx-extension-03], the NETCONF protocol extension is defined and we will re-use several of the YANG and XML objects defined in that document for RESTCONF. Please refer to that document for additional context and example applications. 1.1. Terminology 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. 2. RESTCONF Extensions A RESTCONF server SHOULD support trace context traceparent header as defined in [W3C-Trace-Context]. A RESTCONF server SHOULD support trace context tracestate header as defined in [W3C-Trace-Context]. 2.1. Errors handling The RESTCONF server SHOULD follow the "Processing Model for Working with Trace Context" as specified in [W3C-Trace-Context]. If the server rejects the RPC because of the trace context headers values, the server MUST return an rpc-error with the following values: error-tag: operation-failed error-type: protocol error-severity: error Additionally, the error-info tag SHOULD contain a relevant details about the error. Gagliano, et al. Expires 7 January 2024 [Page 3] Internet-Draft rc_trace July 2023 Finally, the sx:structure defined in [I-D.draft-rogaglia-netconf-trace-ctx-extension-03] SHOULD be present in any error message from the server. Example of a badly formated trace context extension using [RFC8040] example B.2.1: POST /restconf/data/example-jukebox:jukebox/library HTTP/1.1 Host: example.com Content-Type: application/yang-data+json traceparent: SomeBadFormatHere tracestate: OrSomeBadFormatHere { "example-jukebox:artist" : [ { "name" : "Foo Fighters" } ] } And the expected error message: HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2023 20:56:30 GMT Server: example-server Content-Type: application/yang-data+json { "ietf-restconf:errors" : { "error" : [ { "error-type" : "protocol", "error-tag" : "operation-failed", "error-severity" : "error", "error-message" : "OTLP traceparent attribute incorrectly formatted", "error-info": { "ietf-netconf-otlp-context:meta-name" : "traceparent", "ietf-netconf-otlp-context:meta-value" : "SomeBadFormatHere", "ietf-netconf-otlp-context:error-type" : "ietf-netconf-otlp-context:bad-format" } } ] } } Gagliano, et al. Expires 7 January 2024 [Page 4] Internet-Draft rc_trace July 2023 2.2. Trace Context header versionning This extension refers to the [W3C-Trace-Context] trace context capability. The W3C traceparent and trace-state headers include the notion of versions. It would be desirable for a RESTCONF client to be able to discover the one or multiple versions of these headers supported by a server. We would like to achieve this goal avoiding the deffinition of new RESTCONF capabilities for each headers' version. [I-D.draft-rogaglia-netconf-trace-ctx-extension-03] defines a pair YANG modules that SHOULD be included in the YANG library per [RFC8525] of the RESTCONF server supporting the RESTCONF Trace Context extension that will refer to the headers' supported versions. Future updates of this document could include additional YANG modules for new headers' versions. 3. Security Considerations TODO Security 4. IANA Considerations This document has no IANA actions. 5. Acknowledgments We would like to acknowledge 6. References 6.1. Normative References [I-D.draft-rogaglia-netconf-trace-ctx-extension-03] Gagliano, R., Larsson, K., and J. Lindblad, "NETCONF Extension to support Trace Context propagation", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-rogaglia-netconf-trace- ctx-extension-03, 6 July 2023, . [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997, . Gagliano, et al. Expires 7 January 2024 [Page 5] Internet-Draft rc_trace July 2023 [RFC8040] Bierman, A., Bjorklund, M., and K. Watsen, "RESTCONF Protocol", RFC 8040, DOI 10.17487/RFC8040, January 2017, . [RFC8174] Leiba, B., "Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key Words", BCP 14, RFC 8174, DOI 10.17487/RFC8174, May 2017, . [RFC8525] Bierman, A., Bjorklund, M., Schoenwaelder, J., Watsen, K., and R. Wilton, "YANG Library", RFC 8525, DOI 10.17487/RFC8525, March 2019, . [W3C-Trace-Context] "W3C Recommendation on Trace Context", 23 November 2021, . 6.2. Informative References [RFC8309] Wu, Q., Liu, W., and A. Farrel, "Service Models Explained", RFC 8309, DOI 10.17487/RFC8309, January 2018, . Appendix A. Example RESTCONF calls TBD Appendix B. Changes (to be deleted by RFC Editor) Appendix C. TO DO List (to be deleted by RFC Editor) * Security Considerations * Example RESTCONF Calls * The W3C is working on a draft document to introduce the concept of "baggage" that we expect part of a future draft for NETCONF and RESTCONF Authors' Addresses Roque Gagliano Cisco Systems Avenue des Uttins 5 CH-1180 Rolle Switzerland Email: rogaglia@cisco.com Gagliano, et al. Expires 7 January 2024 [Page 6] Internet-Draft rc_trace July 2023 Kristian Larsson Deutsche Telekom AG Email: kll@dev.terastrm.net Jan Lindblad Cisco Systems Email: jlindbla@cisco.com Gagliano, et al. Expires 7 January 2024 [Page 7]