| Internet-Draft | YANG Protocol Requirements | May 2024 |
| Watsen | Expires 18 November 2024 | [Page] |
YANG is a data modeling language used to model configuration, operational state, asynchronous notifications, and remote procedure calls (RPCs) for network management. This document describes the syntax and semantics of version 2.0 of the YANG language (YANG 2.0). YANG 2.0 is a major release of the YANG language, updating version 1.1 of the YANG language in both backwards-compatible and backwards-incompatible ways.¶
This document is developed on GitHub (https://github.com/netmod-wg/rfc7950bis). If you wish to contribute, please consider opening a pull request (PR). Please see the README file for details.¶
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YANG [RFC6020] [RFC7950] is a data modeling language used to model configuration, operational state, asynchronous notifications, and remote procedure calls (RPCs) for network management. In this sense, YANG is a domain-specific data modeling language having, e.g., first-class annotations for configuration and operational state, with rules for how they relate.¶
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 registers one capability identifier URN from the "Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF) Capability URNs" registry:¶
This document defines a language with which to write and read descriptions of management information. The language itself has no security impact on the Internet.¶
The editor wishes to thank the following individuals, who all provided helpful comments on various draft versions of this document:¶