SCHC L. Toutain Internet-Draft Institut MINES TELECOM; IMT Atlantique Intended status: Standards Track M. Tiloca Expires: 27 March 2027 RISE AB A. Minaburo Consultant S. Sirohi Institut MINES TELECOM; IMT Atlantique 23 September 2026 Toward RFC 9363bis: Changes to the SCHC YANG Data Model draft-toutain-schc-toward-rfc9363bis-00 Abstract This document is not a revision of RFC 9363, "A YANG Data Model for Static Context Header Compression (SCHC)": it identifies changes -- additions to, and removals from, its YANG data model -- motivated by discussions in the SCHC working group and by drafts published since RFC 9363. These changes include more flexible compression Rule entries through the use of Universal Options, which allow identifiers to be added to or removed from a Rule Description depending on the Universal Options in use; some new Field Length functions, and new Matching Operators (MOs) and Compression/Decompression Actions (CDAs); and a mechanism for the manual allocation of YANG Schema Item iDentifiers (SIDs). Once the working group agrees on the resulting wording, these changes are intended to be incorporated into a future revision of RFC 9363. About This Document This note is to be removed before publishing as an RFC. The latest revision of this draft can be found at . Status information for this document may be found at https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-toutain-schc-toward- rfc9363bis/. Discussion of this document takes place on the SCHC Working Group mailing list (mailto:schc@ietf.org), which is archived at https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/schc/. Subscribe at https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/schc/. Source for this draft and an issue tracker can be found at https://github.com/. Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 1] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 Status of This Memo This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. The list of current Internet- Drafts is at https://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/current/. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." This Internet-Draft will expire on 27 March 2027. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2026 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2. Conventions and Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3. Universal Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3.1. Space ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3.2. Deprecating the Per-Option CoAP FIDs . . . . . . . . . . 7 3.3. OSCORE and KUDOS Suboptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 3.4. Field Length Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 3.5. Example 1: OSCORE outer header . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 4. Variable Length in Bits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 4.1. Example, Non-Byte-Aligned MSB Residue . . . . . . . . . . 14 5. ICMPv6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 5.1. New FID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 5.2. New Matching Operators and Compression/Decompression Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 5.2.1. Example, ICMPv6 Error with Reverse Compression . . . 16 Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 2] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 5.3. Alternative: Include IPv6 in Header Format . . . . . . . 18 6. Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 7. Compound ACK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 8. Rule Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 9. Manual SID Allocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 10. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 11. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 12. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 12.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 12.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Appendix A. Full YANG Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 1. Introduction This document is not itself a revision of RFC 9363 [RFC9363], the YANG data model for Static Context Header Compression (SCHC) [RFC8724]. Instead, it identifies the items that should be added to, or removed from, that data model, taking into account discussions held in the SCHC working group and drafts published since RFC 9363 (e.g. [I-D.ietf-schc-universal-option], [I-D.ietf-schc-8824-update], and [I-D.ietf-schc-icmpv6-compression]). Once the working group agrees on the resulting wording, a new revision of RFC 9363 will be issued to formally incorporate it. This document also introduces the framework for Rule management; the details of Rule management are left to separate documents. 2. Conventions and Definitions 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. 3. Universal Options In RFC 9363 [RFC9363], each field found in a header is referenced by a globally unique identifier called a Field ID (FID). The SCHC YANG module defines an identityref for each FID. This static allocation approach breaks down when a protocol carries options, such as CoAP [RFC7252]: new options appear regularly, and the mapping between an option number and a FID is not trivial. Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 3] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 [I-D.ietf-schc-universal-option] augments the compression Rule entry, in which the FID is replaced by a tuple made of a space ID and the option number, so that any option of a given protocol can be referenced without allocating a dedicated FID for it. In this approach, the key used to access a regular field entry remains the FID, the Direction Indicator, and the position, while the key used to access an option entry becomes the space ID, the option number, and the position. This key-based approach does not guarantee that entries appear in the same order as the corresponding fields in the header (all the options will appear at the end of the rule), whereas RFC 8724 [RFC8724] mandates that order and recent implementations have shown it to be efficient. In addition, these three- or four-element keys remain large, which may be a penalty when Rule management is used (see Section 8). This document deprecates the whole compression Rule entry structure in favor of a new one, providing a uniform way to reference a field entry. A new "entry-index" leaf is introduced as the key of the new "entry-universal" list. The list is defined as "ordered-by user", and "entry-index" values are assigned sequentially according to the order of the entries in that list. The list order therefore continues to convey the header field order (addressing the second problem). "entry-index" is then followed by a choice between a field-id and a space-id/option-number. The rest of the entry is unchanged, except for the new "field-length-value" leaf, added to carry the entry-index argument discussed later. RFC 7950 [RFC7950], Section 11, does not allow the "entry" list's key, nor the "field-id" leaf, to be changed in place in a published module ("Otherwise, if the semantics of any previous definition are changed [...] then this MUST be achieved by a new definition with a new identifier"). This document therefore leaves the RFC 9363 "compression-rule-entry" grouping, its "compression-content" grouping, and the "compression" case untouched, and marks them "status deprecated;" (RFC 8407 recommends a "deprecated" status be kept for at least one year before moving to "obsolete"). The new structure is defined in a new "compression-rule-entry-universal" grouping, used by a new "compression-content-universal" grouping and a new "compression-universal" case, sitting alongside the deprecated ones in the "nature" choice. Figure 1 shows the resulting YANG tree diagram for both cases (deprecated "compression" and new "compression-universal"). Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 4] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 x--:(compression) {compression}? | x--rw entry* [field-id field-position direction-indicator] | +--rw field-id fid-type | +--rw field-length union | +--rw field-position uint8 | +--rw direction-indicator di-type | +--rw target-value* [index] | | +--rw index uint16 | | +--rw value? binary | +--rw matching-operator mo-type | +--rw matching-operator-value* [index] | | +--rw index uint16 | | +--rw value? binary | +--rw comp-decomp-action cda-type | +--rw comp-decomp-action-value* [index] | +--rw index uint16 | +--rw value? binary +--:(compression-universal) {compression or management}? +--rw entry-universal* [entry-index] | +--rw entry-index uint16 | +--rw (field-or-space) | | +--:(regular-field) | | | +--rw field-id fid-type | | +--:(universal-option) | | +--rw space-id space-id-type | | +--rw universal-value uint64 | +--rw field-length union | +--rw field-length-value? uint16 | +--rw field-position uint8 | +--rw direction-indicator di-type | +--rw target-value* [index] | | +--rw index uint16 | | +--rw value? binary | +--rw matching-operator mo-type | +--rw matching-operator-value* [index] | | +--rw index uint16 | | +--rw value? binary | +--rw comp-decomp-action cda-type | +--rw comp-decomp-action-value* [index] | +--rw index uint16 | +--rw value? binary +--rw action? action-type +--rw action-value* [index] +--rw index uint16 +--rw value? binary Figure 1: Compression Rule Entry: deprecated (RFC 9363) and new (-universal) cases Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 5] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 Unlike the deprecated "entry" list, keyed by the compound "field- id"/"field-position"/"direction-indicator", "entry-universal" is keyed by the single-leaf "entry-index". This makes an entry cheap and unambiguous to reference from elsewhere within the same Rule, e.g. the "field-length-value" argument of "fl-length-bytes" and "fl- length-bits" (Section 3.4), or a management operation targeting it (Section 8). 3.1. Space ID Several protocols define options: CoAP [RFC7252] is one example, but other protocols define their own options too, each with its own option numbering. A single "space-id" value is therefore not enough by itself; it must be qualified by the protocol (option space) it belongs to. To identify these option spaces, this document creates a "space-id- base-type" identity and derives one identity per protocol from it; a "space-id-type" typedef is then created from "space-id-base-type", following the identityref pattern used throughout RFC 9363 (e.g. for "rcs-algorithm-type"). At present, the module only defines one such identity, "space-id-coap", for the CoAP option space; other protocols that define options can add their own "space-id-*" identity the same way. Figure 2 shows this pattern, mirroring how RFC 9363 introduces its own identityref-derived types. Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 6] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 identity space-id-base-type { base schc:space-field-id-base-type; description "Base identity for a Universal Option space. Several protocols define options (e.g. CoAP); each such protocol is identified by an identity derived from this base type."; } identity space-id-coap { base space-id-base-type; description "Space ID identifying the CoAP option space."; reference "RFC 7252 The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)"; } typedef space-id-type { type identityref { base space-id-base-type; } description "Space ID type for universal option spaces (CoAP options, etc.). Used in the universal-option case of compression-rule-entry-universal."; } Figure 2: Space ID: base identity, one derived identity per protocol, and typedef "space-id-type" is used, together with "space-id-base-type" and "fid- base-type"'s common ancestor "space-field-id-base-type", by the "field-or-space" choice (see Figure 1). 3.2. Deprecating the Per-Option CoAP FIDs RFC 9363 defines twenty per-option Field IDs deriving from "fid-coap- option", one for each CoAP option registered at the time (see Table 1). Now that Universal Options provide a "space-id- coap"/"universal-value" pair to reference any CoAP option by its option number, without needing a dedicated FID for it, each of these twenty identities is superseded and marked deprecated. RFC 7950 [RFC7950], Section 11, states that "Obsolete definitions MUST NOT be removed from published modules, since their identifiers may still be referenced by other modules": once RFC 9363 is published, these twenty identities can only ever be marked "deprecated" and then "obsolete"; they can never simply disappear from a later revision of the module. RFC 8407 [RFC8407], Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 7] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 Section 4.7, further recommends that "an object SHOULD be available for at least one year with a 'deprecated' status before it is changed to 'obsolete'", and that "the status SHOULD NOT be changed from 'current' directly to 'obsolete'": since these twenty identities are "current" in RFC 9363, this document marks them "deprecated" rather than "obsolete". These twenty identities MUST NOT be used in a new "entry-universal" list (Figure 1): the "space-id"/ "universal-value" pair introduced in Section 3 supersedes them there. They remain usable only in the deprecated "entry" list, for Rules that already reference them. IANA has allocated the SID range 2550-2949 to the "ietf-schc" module. At the time of writing, no SID file for "ietf-schc" is registered in the IETF YANG-SID Modules registry. None from the range registered for RFC 9363 MUST be allocated to these twenty deprecated identities: a SID "immutably maps to EXACTLY one YANG name", so allocating one to an identity already superseded by Universal Options would waste it permanently, with no way to reclaim it later. The working copy of the module has been corrected accordingly: the twenty identities are present, each with "status deprecated;" (see Figure 3). +=================+===========+=========================+===========+ | RFC 9363 FID | CoAP | Replaced by (space-id- | Defined | | | Option | coap / universal-value) | in | +=================+===========+=========================+===========+ | fid-coap- | If-Match | 1 | [RFC7252] | | option-if- | | | | | match | | | | +-----------------+-----------+-------------------------+-----------+ | fid-coap- | Uri-Host | 3 | [RFC7252] | | option-uri- | | | | | host | | | | +-----------------+-----------+-------------------------+-----------+ | fid-coap- | ETag | 4 | [RFC7252] | | option-etag | | | | +-----------------+-----------+-------------------------+-----------+ | fid-coap- | If-None- | 5 | [RFC7252] | | option-if- | Match | | | | none-match | | | | +-----------------+-----------+-------------------------+-----------+ | fid-coap- | Observe | 6 | [RFC7641] | | option-observe | | | | +-----------------+-----------+-------------------------+-----------+ | fid-coap- | Uri-Port | 7 | [RFC7252] | | option-uri- | | | | Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 8] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 | port | | | | +-----------------+-----------+-------------------------+-----------+ | fid-coap- | Location- | 8 | [RFC7252] | | option- | Path | | | | location-path | | | | +-----------------+-----------+-------------------------+-----------+ | fid-coap- | Uri-Path | 11 | [RFC7252] | | option-uri- | | | | | path | | | | +-----------------+-----------+-------------------------+-----------+ | fid-coap- | Content- | 12 | [RFC7252] | | option- | Format | | | | content-format | | | | +-----------------+-----------+-------------------------+-----------+ | fid-coap- | Max-Age | 14 | [RFC7252] | | option-max-age | | | | +-----------------+-----------+-------------------------+-----------+ | fid-coap- | Uri-Query | 15 | [RFC7252] | | option-uri- | | | | | query | | | | +-----------------+-----------+-------------------------+-----------+ | fid-coap- | Accept | 17 | [RFC7252] | | option-accept | | | | +-----------------+-----------+-------------------------+-----------+ | fid-coap- | Location- | 20 | [RFC7252] | | option- | Query | | | | location-query | | | | +-----------------+-----------+-------------------------+-----------+ | fid-coap- | Block2 | 23 | [RFC7959] | | option-block2 | | | | +-----------------+-----------+-------------------------+-----------+ | fid-coap- | Block1 | 27 | [RFC7959] | | option-block1 | | | | +-----------------+-----------+-------------------------+-----------+ | fid-coap- | Size2 | 28 | [RFC7959] | | option-size2 | | | | +-----------------+-----------+-------------------------+-----------+ | fid-coap- | Proxy-Uri | 35 | [RFC7252] | | option-proxy- | | | | | uri | | | | +-----------------+-----------+-------------------------+-----------+ | fid-coap- | Proxy- | 39 | [RFC7252] | | option-proxy- | Scheme | | | | scheme | | | | +-----------------+-----------+-------------------------+-----------+ | fid-coap- | Size1 | 60 | [RFC7252] | | option-size1 | | | | +-----------------+-----------+-------------------------+-----------+ Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 9] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 | fid-coap- | No- | 258 | [RFC7967] | | option-no- | Response | | | | response | | | | +-----------------+-----------+-------------------------+-----------+ Table 1: RFC 9363 per-option CoAP FIDs and their Universal Option replacement identity fid-coap-option-uri-path { base fid-coap-option; status deprecated; description "CoAP option Uri-Path. Deprecated in favor of Universal Options (space-id-coap / universal-value)."; reference "RFC 7252 The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)"; } Figure 3: Example: Deprecating a Per-Option CoAP FID (fid-coap- option-uri-path) 3.3. OSCORE and KUDOS Suboptions Universal Options allow any option to be compressed following the SCHC principle, but compression can be more efficient when the sub- fields of an option are taken into account individually. This is why the module introduces specific fields for OSCORE [RFC8613] and KUDOS [I-D.ietf-core-oscore-key-update]: each option is split into sub- fields, each with its own identity ("fid-coap-option-oscore-piv", "fid-coap-option-oscore-kid", "fid-coap-option-oscore-kidctx", "fid- coap-option-kudos-nonce", etc.). Note that the Flags field, for both OSCORE and KUDOS, is also split so that its length indicator becomes a specific field of its own: "fid-coap-option-oscore-flags-flagbits"/"fid-coap-option-oscore- flags-n" for OSCORE, and "fid-coap-option-kudos-x-flagbits"/ "fid- coap-option-kudos-x-m" for KUDOS. This will be exploited by the new Field Length functions introduced in Section 3.4, which can reference such a field, by its "entry-index", to determine the length of another field (e.g. the Partial IV). KUDOS's "fid-coap-option-kudos-x-m" cannot be treated in the same way as OSCORE's "fid-coap-option-oscore-flags-n" for this purpose. The value "m" encodes the Nonce length in bytes minus one; equivalently, the Nonce length is "m + 1". Since "fl-length-bytes" and "fl-length- bits" directly use the value of the referenced entry as the length, they cannot directly represent this relationship. KUDOS therefore requires separate handling of this length transformation. Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 10] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 "fid-coap-option" itself is kept "current": it is still used, unchanged, as the base identity of these OSCORE and KUDOS suboption FIDs. Unlike the twenty per-option FIDs deprecated in the previous subsection, they use "fid-coap-option" as a typing hierarchy for parts of a single CoAP option (OSCORE, KUDOS), not as a stand-in for an arbitrary CoAP option, and are therefore unaffected: they remain "current". 3.4. Field Length Functions RFC 8824 [RFC8824] defines a specific length function for the Token field: when this function is specified, the value of the Token Length (TKL) is used to indicate the length of the field. [I-D.ietf-schc-8824-update] extends this principle to the Partial IV field for OSCORE. This approach is not scalable: a new function would have to be defined for every new protocol field whose length needs to be carried this way. This document instead introduces two new functions, "fl- length-bytes" and "fl-length-bits". They both take an argument, carried in the new Rule entry field "field-length-value", that points to the entry where the length is specified, referenced by its "entry- index" (see Figure 1). Having two separate functions, rather than a single generic one, also conveys the unit of the length value: bytes for "fl-length-bytes", bits for "fl-length-bits". * "fl-length-bytes" generalizes "fl-token-length": for example, "fl- token-length" is now equivalent to "fl-length-bytes(index)", where "index" is the "entry-index" of the CoAP TKL field. * "fl-length-bits" is the bit-level equivalent of "fl-length-bytes". This is what Section 3.3 relies on: the OSCORE and KUDOS Flags field is split so that its length indicator ("fid-coap-option-oscore-flags- n", "fid-coap-option-kudos-x-m") is its own entry; "fl-length-bytes" or "fl-length-bits" can then use that entry's "entry-index" to derive the length of the corresponding Partial IV field. This works directly for OSCORE; Section 3.3 explains why the same does not hold for KUDOS's Nonce. This document also introduces "fl-remaining", for an entry that is always the last one in the Rule (see Section 5's "fid-payload"). Unlike "fl-variable", which prefixes its residue with an explicit length (see Section 4), "fl-remaining" accepts a field of any length but does not add that prefix when serializing the residue: being the last entry, its residue already runs to the end of the compression residue and needs no delimiter. Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 11] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 3.5. Example 1: OSCORE outer header Figure 4 shows an example SCHC Compression Rule (Rule ID 2, encoded on 5 bits, i.e. "00010") that compresses, in both directions, the outer CoAP header of a CoAP/OSCORE message. The server is located on the Application side and the client on the Device side. In OSCORE, the client's request carries an OSCORE option with the security parameters, while the server's response carries an empty OSCORE option; the Token links the response to its request. The first column is new and not defined in RFC 8724 [RFC8724]: it numbers the entries in the rule. The names in the other columns are the ones defined in the YANG module, without their prefix ("fid-", "fl-", "mo-", "cda-"), for better legibility. +----+----------------+----------+----+----+----+--------+----------+ | # | Field | FL | FP | DI | TV | MO | CDA | +----+----------------+----------+----+----+----+--------+----------+ | 0 | coap-version | 2 | 1 | Bi | 01 | equal | not-sent | | 1 | coap-type | 2 | 1 | Bi | - | ignore | value- | | | | | | | | | sent | | 2 | coap-tkl | 4 | 1 | Bi | - | ignore | value- | | | | | | | | | sent | | 3 | coap-code | 8 | 1 | Up | 02 | equal | not-sent | | 4 | coap-code | 8 | 1 | Dw | 44 | equal | not-sent | | 5 | coap-mid | 16 | 1 | Bi | 00 | ignore | value- | | | | | | | | | sent | | 6 | coap-token | length- | 1 | Bi | - | ignore | value- | | | | bytes(2) | | | | | sent | | 7 | coap-option- | 5 | 1 | Up | 01 | equal | not-sent | | | oscore-flags- | | | | | | | | | flagbits | | | | | | | | 8 | coap-option- | 3 | 1 | Up | 01 | equal | not-sent | | | oscore-flags-n | | | | | | | | 9 | coap-option- | length- | 1 | Up | - | ignore | value- | | | oscore-piv | bytes(8) | | | | | sent | | 10 | coap-option- | 0 | 1 | Up | 00 | equal | not-sent | | | oscore-kidctx | | | | | | | | 11 | coap-option- | var | 1 | Up | - | ignore | value- | | | oscore-kid | | | | | | sent | | 12 | space-id- | 0 | 1 | Dw | - | equal | not-sent | | | coap(9) | | | | | | | +----+----------------+----------+----+----+----+--------+----------+ Figure 4: Example Compression Rule for an Outer CoAP/OSCORE Header Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 12] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 This rule uses the new capabilities introduced above: * The Token field's length no longer uses the legacy "fl-token- length" function; instead, "fl-length-bytes" is used, with its parameter set to 2, referring to entry 2, "coap-tkl". * The OSCORE option's content is split into sub-fields. Note that the Flags field is itself split between "coap-option-oscore-flags- flagbits" and "coap-option-oscore-flags-n", the latter carrying the length of the Partial IV field. * The Partial IV length is likewise given by "fl-length-bytes", this time with its parameter set to 8, referring to entry 8, "coap- option-oscore-flags-n". * In the other direction, the OSCORE option is empty and is compressed using a Universal Option, indicating option number 9. TO BE DISCUSSED: the "h" flag is set to 0, meaning the KID Context is normally absent; should entry 10, "coap-option-oscore-kidctx", still appear in the rule in that case? When present, the KID Context value is itself encoded as a length byte followed by the context bytes. Should this document keep it as a single "coap-option-oscore-kidctx" entry of variable length -- which would send that length twice, once through SCHC's own variable-length encoding and once through the length byte already embedded in the OSCORE encoding -- or split it into two entries, a length indicator and the context value, with the latter using "fl-length-bytes" to point to the former? 4. Variable Length in Bits "fl-variable-bits" generalizes RFC 8824's [RFC8824] "fl-variable" to bit-level variable-length fields, the same way [I-D.ietf-schc-8824-update]'s "var_bit" function does. RFC 8724 [RFC8724] requires the "MSB" matching operator's parameter to be a multiple of 8 bits when applied to a byte-counted variable-length field ("fl-variable"): the residue sent with the "LSB" action would otherwise not be an integral number of bytes, and "fl-variable"'s length prefix, itself byte-counted, could not express it. "fl- variable-bits" removes that restriction by counting the residue's length prefix in bits instead of bytes. Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 13] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 The length prefix itself is encoded the same way as for "fl- variable", following RFC 8724 [RFC8724], Section 7.4.2: sizes between 0 and 14 (in the unit defined by the FL -- bytes for "fl-variable", bits for "fl-variable-bits") are encoded as a 4-bit unsigned integer; sizes between 15 and 254 are encoded as 0b1111 followed by an 8-bit unsigned integer; larger sizes are encoded as 0xfff followed by a 16-bit unsigned integer. Only the counted unit changes between the two functions, not the escape structure of the length prefix. 4.1. Example, Non-Byte-Aligned MSB Residue The case "var_bit" and "fl-variable-bits" actually address is a variable-length field, whose residue needs an explicit length prefix. [I-D.ietf-schc-8824-update] itself has such an example, for the OSCORE "kid" sub-field (entry "coap-option-oscore-kid" in Figure 4, which instead sends it unmatched): Figure 5. "msb(44)" matches the KID's most significant 44 bits against the 6-byte (48-bit) target value; only the remaining 4 bits are sent with "lsb". "var_bit" (this document's "fl-variable-bits") carries that 4-bit length in its residue length prefix; RFC 8824's byte-counted "fl-variable" could not. +----------------+-----------+----+----+----------+---------+-----+ | Field | FL | FP | DI | TV | MO | CDA | +----------------+-----------+----+----+----------+---------+-----+ | coap-option- | variable- | 1 | Up | 0x636c69 | msb(44) | lsb | | oscore-kid | bits | | | 656e70 | | | +----------------+-----------+----+----+----------+---------+-----+ Figure 5: Non-Byte-Aligned MSB Residue on a Variable-Length Field (adapted from I-D.ietf-schc-8824-update) 5. ICMPv6 [I-D.ietf-schc-icmpv6-compression] defines how SCHC can interact with ICMPv6 [RFC4443], either to compress an ICMPv6 message or to generate one. This document focuses only on the resulting impact on the YANG Data Model. Since an ICMPv6 message may itself carry an IPv6 header -- e.g. the offending packet embedded in an error message -- the draft introduces new Matching Operators and Compression/Decompression Actions to compress that payload; we open the discussion on an alternative behavior for it below. 5.1. New FID [I-D.ietf-schc-icmpv6-compression] introduces eight new Field IDs for ICMPv6 [RFC4443]: Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 14] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 * "fid-icmpv6-type", "fid-icmpv6-code", "fid-icmpv6-checksum": present in every ICMPv6 message. * "fid-icmpv6-mtu": present in the Packet Too Big message. * "fid-icmpv6-pointer": present in the Parameter Problem message. * "fid-icmpv6-identifier", "fid-icmpv6-sequence": present in the Echo Request/Reply message. * "fid-icmpv6-payload": the data following the ICMPv6 header. Two more generic Field IDs, not specific to ICMPv6, are found in the working copy of the module alongside them. Being generic, they can be used as-is when compressing other protocols: * "fid-unused": as its name suggests, used to skip an unused part of a header. This matters when parsing and compression happen on the fly, and reinforces the constraint that fields appear in the same order as in the header. Setting its Target Value to 0, its Matching Operator to "ignore", and its Compression/Decompression Action to "not-sent" is RECOMMENDED. * "fid-payload": MUST be the last entry of the Rule, matching its position as the packet's trailing payload, and uses the new "fl- remaining" (Section 3.4), which accepts any length without prefixing the residue with one, since the last entry's residue already runs to the end of the SCHC packet. With Matching Operator "ignore" and Compression/Decompression Action "value- sent", it behaves exactly as the usual, implicit SCHC behavior, where the payload simply follows the compression residue. But it can also be used to intercept the payload: Compression/ Decompression Action "not-sent" then elides it, or another CDA can apply a special treatment to compress it, instead of sending it verbatim. 5.2. New Matching Operators and Compression/Decompression Actions [I-D.ietf-schc-icmpv6-compression] is also the origin of the "mo- rule-match"/"mo-rev-rule-match" Matching Operators and the "cda- compress-sent"/"cda-rev-compress-sent" Compression/ Decompression Actions. "mo-rule-match" returns true if the Target Value matches another Rule, keeping the Up/Down direction; "mo-rev-rule-match" does the same but reversing that direction; "cda-compress-sent" and "cda- rev-compress-sent" send a compressed version of the Target Value, using respectively the matched Rule or its direction-reversed counterpart. Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 15] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 The reversed forms exist because, per RFC 4443 [RFC4443], an ICMPv6 error message carries back as much as possible of the IPv6 packet that triggered it -- a packet that was sent in the opposite direction from the error message itself. Compressing that embedded copy therefore means matching it against, and generating its residue from, a Rule for the reverse direction. 5.2.1. Example, ICMPv6 Error with Reverse Compression Figure 6 adapts the "Time Exceeded" Rule from [I-D.ietf-schc-icmpv6-compression], prefixed with the outer IPv6 header carrying the ICMPv6 message itself (as in Figure 8 below): the Type and Code identify the error, the Checksum is recomputed on decompression, the 32-bit "Unused" field mandated by RFC 4443 [RFC4443] for this message is elided with "fid-unused" (Section 5), and the Payload -- the offending IPv6 packet -- is matched and compressed against its own (Up) Rule with "rev-rule-match" and "rev- compress-sent", instead of being sent in full. Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 16] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 +--------------+-----------+----+----+--------+----------+-----------+ | Field | FL | FP | DI | TV | MO | CDA | +--------------+-----------+----+----+--------+----------+-----------+ +------------------------ Outer IPv6 header -------------------------+ | ipv6-version | 4 | 1 | Dw | 6 | equal | not-sent | | ipv6- | 8 | 1 | Dw | 0 | ignore | not-sent | | trafficclass | | | | | | | | ipv6- | 20 | 1 | Dw | 0 | ignore | not-sent | | flowlabel | | | | | | | | ipv6- | 16 | 1 | Dw | - | ignore | compute | | payload- | | | | | | | | length | | | | | | | | ipv6- | 8 | 1 | Dw | 58 | equal | not-sent | | nextheader | | | | | | | | ipv6- | 8 | 1 | Dw | 1 | equal | not-sent | | hoplimit | | | | | | | | ipv6- | 64 | 1 | Dw | aaaa:: | equal | not-sent | | devprefix | | | | | | | | ipv6-deviid | 64 | 1 | Dw | ::zzzz | equal | not-sent | | ipv6- | 64 | 1 | Dw | - | ignore | value- | | appprefix | | | | | | sent | | ipv6-appiid | 64 | 1 | Dw | - | ignore | value- | | | | | | | | sent | +-------------------------- ICMPv6 header ---------------------------+ | icmpv6-type | 8 | 1 | Dw | 3 | equal | not-sent | | icmpv6-code | 8 | 1 | Dw | [0,1] | match- | mapping- | | | | | | | mapping | sent | | icmpv6- | 16 | 1 | Dw | - | ignore | compute | | checksum | | | | | | | | unused | 32 | 1 | Dw | 0 | ignore | not-sent | | icmpv6- | variable- | 1 | Dw | 0 | rev- | rev- | | payload | bits | | | | rule- | compress- | | | | | | | match | sent | +--------------+-----------+----+----+--------+----------+-----------+ Figure 6: ICMPv6 Error Compressed Against a Reverse-Direction Rule (adapted from I-D.ietf-schc-icmpv6-compression) Figure 6 shows a Rule inspired by [I-D.ietf-schc-icmpv6-compression]. One difference here is the addition of the "unused" entry, skipping the 32 bits following the Checksum. The remaining bytes are assigned to "icmpv6-payload" and contain the original (invoking) header. If a Rule in the context matches that payload, compression applies to it as well. Figure 7 shows the resulting residue: the RuleID of the ICMPv6 message, followed by its own compression residue, then a length for the variable-length structure, the RuleID of the Rule that compresses Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 17] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 the original header, that Rule's compression residue, the remaining, uncompressed payload, and, since this concludes the SCHC packet, the final padding bits ([RFC8724]) that must bring it to a byte boundary, since "Length" here counts bytes, not bits: spanning the inner RuleID, header residue, and payload together, it is typically well above the 14-byte escape threshold (Section 4), so counting it in bytes keeps that length prefix itself compact. |----------------Length-----------------| +---------+---------+--------+---------+---------+---------+---------+ | RuleID | IPv6/ | Length | RuleID | IPv6/ | Payload | Padding | | (outer) | ICMPv6 | | (inner) | UDP | | | | | residue | | | residue | | | +---------+---------+--------+---------+---------+---------+---------+ Figure 7: Residue Layout for an ICMPv6 Error Compressing an Embedded, Compressed Header 5.3. Alternative: Include IPv6 in Header Format An alternative to [I-D.ietf-schc-icmpv6-compression] is to continue the compression process inside the ICMPv6 payload, instead of matching it against a separate Rule. Figure 8 shows the resulting Rule. The invoking header's Field Descriptors are distinct from the outer header's, and are designed from the ICMPv6 message's point of view. Fields designed with an application or device role remain unchanged (e.g. "ipv6-deviid" or "udp-app-port"), but the direction is reversed. Field Position is also incremented if a field is repeated, as for the IPv6 fields in the example. The compression mechanism MUST also include the port numbers: an ICMPv6 error message exists to inform the source that a given flow failed to reach its destination, and the port numbers are part of that flow's identification. It is RECOMMENDED to be able to fully reconstruct the Layer 4 header this way, not just the ports. +--------------+-----------+----+----+--------+--------+----------+ | Field | FL | FP | DI | TV | MO | CDA | +--------------+-----------+----+----+--------+--------+----------+ +----------------------- Outer IPv6 header -----------------------+ | ipv6-version | 4 | 1 | Bi | 6 | equal | not-sent | | ipv6- | 8 | 1 | Bi | 0 | ignore | not-sent | | trafficclass | | | | | | | | ipv6- | 20 | 1 | Bi | 0 | ignore | not-sent | | flowlabel | | | | | | | Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 18] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 | ipv6- | 16 | 1 | Bi | - | ignore | compute | | payload- | | | | | | | | length | | | | | | | | ipv6- | 8 | 1 | Bi | 58 | equal | not-sent | | nextheader | | | | | | | | ipv6- | 8 | 1 | Up | - | ignore | value- | | hoplimit | | | | | | sent | | ipv6- | 8 | 1 | Dw | 1 | equal | not-sent | | hoplimit | | | | | | | | ipv6- | 64 | 1 | Bi | aaaa:: | equal | not-sent | | devprefix | | | | | | | | ipv6-deviid | 64 | 1 | Bi | ::zzzz | equal | not-sent | | ipv6- | 64 | 1 | Bi | - | ignore | value- | | appprefix | | | | | | sent | | ipv6-appiid | 64 | 1 | Bi | - | ignore | value- | | | | | | | | sent | +------------------------- ICMPv6 header -------------------------+ | icmpv6-type | 8 | 1 | Bi | 1 | equal | not-sent | | icmpv6-code | 8 | 1 | Bi | 4 | equal | not-sent | | icmpv6- | 16 | 1 | Bi | 0 | ignore | compute | | checksum | | | | | | | | unused | 32 | 1 | Bi | 0 | ignore | not-sent | +---------------- Invoking (embedded) IPv6 header ----------------+ | ipv6-version | 4 | 2 | Bi | 6 | equal | not-sent | | ipv6- | 8 | 2 | Bi | 0 | ignore | not-sent | | trafficclass | | | | | | | | ipv6- | 20 | 2 | Bi | 0 | ignore | not-sent | | flowlabel | | | | | | | | ipv6- | 16 | 2 | Bi | - | ignore | compute | | payload- | | | | | | | | length | | | | | | | | ipv6- | 8 | 2 | Bi | 17 | equal | not-sent | | nextheader | | | | | | | | ipv6- | 8 | 2 | Dw | 1 | equal | not-sent | | hoplimit | | | | | | | | ipv6- | 8 | 2 | Up | - | ignore | value- | | hoplimit | | | | | | sent | | ipv6- | 64 | 2 | Bi | aaaa:: | equal | not-sent | | devprefix | | | | | | | | ipv6-deviid | 64 | 2 | Bi | ::zzzz | equal | not-sent | | ipv6- | 64 | 2 | Bi | - | ignore | value- | | appprefix | | | | | | sent | | ipv6-appiid | 64 | 2 | Bi | - | ignore | value- | | | | | | | | sent | +---------------- Invoking (embedded) UDP header -----------------+ | udp-dev-port | 16 | 1 | Bi | 5683 | equal | not-sent | | udp-app-port | 16 | 1 | Bi | - | ignore | value- | | | | | | | | sent | Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 19] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 | udp-length | 16 | 1 | Bi | 0 | ignore | compute | | udp-checksum | 16 | 1 | Bi | 0 | ignore | compute | +--------------+-----------+----+----+--------+--------+----------+ | payload | remaining | 1 | Bi | - | ignore | not-sent | +--------------+-----------+----+----+--------+--------+----------+ Figure 8: Alternative ICMPv6 Rule Embedding the Invoking IPv6/UDP Header In Place The compression result should be better, since there is no need to send a variable-length residue and a second RuleID, at the cost of a more complex Rule definition. +----------+------------------------------------------+ | RuleID | IPv6/ICMPv6/IPv6/UDP residue | +----------+------------------------------------------+ Figure 9: Residue Layout for the Alternative ICMPv6 Rule 6. Action Selecting a compression Rule triggers compression and sends the resulting SCHC Packet to the other end. [I-D.barthel-lpwan-oam-schc] introduced an Action to change that behavior: the Rule is still selected through its entries, but the packet description is handed over to the process the Action names, instead of being sent to the lower layer. Since the Rule is then used only for the selection, the Compression/Decompression Actions of its entries do not matter and are set to "not-sent". The motivating example is an ICMPv6 [RFC4443] Echo Request sent to a Device. The Device receives the compressed message and answers with an Echo Reply, but propagating the Echo Request over the LPWAN costs two messages on a constrained link, and the Identifier and Sequence Number fields compress poorly when the sender is unaware of the compression scheme. The Action "action-proxy-ping" avoids that traffic: the core SCHC C/D answers the Echo Request on behalf of the Device. The Action takes a parameter, in seconds, giving the interval during which the Device is considered active. During this interval, the proxy echoes the ping requests; after it, they are discarded. The parameter is carried in "action-value", a list reusing the Target Value structure, so an Action may take several arguments. Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 20] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 Figure 10 shows a compression Rule for pinging a Device, with the entry-index column and the identity short names used in Figure 4. The Action applies to the Rule as a whole, and is therefore shown above its entries. +--------------------------+ | Action: proxy-ping(300) | +----+----------------+----+----+----+----+---------+----------+ | # | Field | FL | FP | DI | TV | MO | CDA | +----+----------------+----+----+----+----+---------+----------+ | IPv6 Headers description (omitted) | +----+----------------+----+----+----+----+---------+----------+ | 10 | icmpv6-type | 8 | 1 | Dw | 80 | equal | not-sent | | 11 | icmpv6-code | 8 | 1 | Bi | 00 | equal | not-sent | | 12 | icmpv6- | 16 | 1 | Bi | - | ignore | not-sent | | | identifier | | | | | | | | 13 | icmpv6- | 16 | 1 | Bi | 00 | MSB(24) | lsb | | | sequence | | | | | | | +----+----------------+----+----+----+----+---------+----------+ Figure 10: Example Compression Rule for a Ping to a Device In the data model, the Action is added to the compression Rule itself, as a sibling of its entries, and not to a single entry: * "action": an identityref to "action-type", defaulting to "action- forward". Being optional and defaulted, a Rule that does not carry it behaves exactly as in RFC 8724 [RFC8724]. * "action-value": the Action's arguments, a list based on the Target Value structure, as for Matching Operator and Compression/ Decompression Action arguments. The corresponding new identities are: * "action-base-type": base identity for the Action applied to a packet matching a compression Rule. * "action-forward": the default, where the packet is handed over to the lower layer, as specified in RFC 8724 [RFC8724]. * "action-proxy-ping": the packet is processed locally by a ping proxy, which answers the Echo Request on behalf of the Device. Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 21] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 7. Compound ACK RFC 9441 [RFC9441], "Static Context Header Compression (SCHC) Compound Acknowledgement (ACK)", includes its own YANG module, "ietf- schc-compound-ack", which augments the "ack-on-error" fragmentation mode ("/schc/rule/nature/fragmentation/mode/ack-on-error") with two new leaves. This document's module revision incorporates them: * "bitmap-format": how bitmaps are carried in a SCHC ACK message: an identityref to "bitmap-format-type", defaulting to "bitmap- RFC8724". * "last-bitmap-compression": a boolean, true by default, indicating whether the last bitmap in a SCHC ACK message can be compressed. The corresponding new identities are: * "bitmap-format-base-type": base identity for how a bitmap is formed in ACK messages. * "bitmap-RFC8724": the default bitmap format, as already defined in RFC 8724 [RFC8724]. * "bitmap-compound-ack": allows several bitmaps within a single ACK message. 8. Rule Management The SCHC YANG data model provides support for Rule management through the "management" feature and the "nature-management" Rule nature. A management Rule uses the compression Rule structure, but is kept separate from regular compression Rules through the "nature- management" Rule nature: IPv6 addresses and port numbers are specially dedicated to identifying it, and MAY overlap with values used by regular compression Rules; the nature of the Rule is what allows distinguishing them. Management Rules are the only ones allowed to access the Static Context, to read, create, update, or delete Rules. Only the "entry-universal" structure supports management Rules; the deprecated "entry" list does not. Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 22] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 "guard-period", the management timer, is not really a property of any single Rule: it applies to the SCHC context as a whole. Nesting it inside "list rule" (whether inside one case or as a sibling of "choice nature") would raise the same reachability problem "case management" would have had, since it would need repeating, and re- keying under SIDs, in every case that might need it. The revision instead moves "guard-period" out of "list rule" entirely, into a new top-level "context" container, a sibling of "schc", present only "if- feature management". Being outside any Rule, it no longer needs a "rule-nature"-based "must" at all. Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 23] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 grouping compression-content-universal { list entry-universal { must "derived-from-or-self(../rule-nature, 'nature-compression') or derived-from-or-self(../rule-nature, 'nature-management')" { error-message "Rule nature must be compression or management"; } /* ... unchanged: key, ordered-by, uses, description ... */ } /* ... action, action-value (Action section) ... */ } container context { if-feature "management"; uses management-content; description "Management-related parameters that apply to the whole SCHC context rather than to a single Rule."; } list rule { /* ... unchanged: key, rule-id-type, rule-nature ... */ choice nature { case fragmentation { if-feature "fragmentation"; uses fragmentation-content; } case compression { /* ... unchanged, still deprecated ... */ } case compression-universal { if-feature "compression or management"; uses compression-content-universal; } } } Figure 11: Widening compression-universal to Also Serve Management Rules (module revision 2026-09-22) For management, a management context is added: its values are common to all SCHC Rules in that management instance, rather than specific to any one Rule. Currently, the context contains a guard period, defining the time before a RuleID can be reused by management when a new Rule is created. Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 24] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 Different management operations can be defined to act on Rules or on individual elements of a Rule. For example, the "duplicate-rule" RPC can be used to create a new Rule from an existing one under a different RuleID, with selected elements of the new Rule modified as part of the operation. This document defines the YANG structures needed to support Rule management. The complete set of management operations -- their semantics, encoding, exchange, and the procedures used to apply them to a SCHC Context -- is specified separately. 9. Manual SID Allocation The mapping between YANG identifiers and SID [RFC9595] values can be generated automatically with the "pyang" tool (e.g. via "pyang --sid- generate-file"). This automatic allocation, however, is not optimized. The first goal of a manual allocation is to minimize the delta between SIDs used together as CBOR/CORECONF keys, so that delta encodes on a single byte (i.e., a value between -24 and +23). [I-D.toutain-schc-sid-allocation] shows that pyang's automatic, alphabetical assignment defeats this: for example, "rule-id-value", "rule-id-length", and "rule-nature", present in every Rule, end up with a delta higher than 23 from their base, so every single Rule pays for a 2-byte delta where a 1-byte one would do. [I-D.toutain-schc-sid-allocation] makes two recommendations to keep this delta small. First, keep data-carrying and identity-carrying nodes in separate SID ranges, since they are rarely encoded together; the distance between the two can then be as large as 255, allowing a 2-byte delta only where it does not matter. Second, leave some SIDs unused around the SCHC Rule identifiers, so the module can be augmented later (i.e. new leaves added) without pushing any of these frequently co-occurring identifiers' deltas past the single-byte threshold. TODO: describe the resulting manual SID allocation mechanism: SIDs are first generated automatically, then remapped to a stable, manually curated allocation table (module, namespace, identifier) so that previously published SIDs do not shift when the module evolves (fields added, removed, or deprecated). Reference [RFC9595] for the SID file format and describe the augmentation used to carry type information per SID item. The delta encoding above optimizes SIDs used as CBOR map keys, but does nothing for a SID used as a value, for instance an identityref leaf's value, such as a Rule entry's "matching-operator" or "comp- Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 25] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 decomp-action". [I-D.toutain-core-private-sid-translation] addresses this with a new Compression/Decompression Action, "cda-sid- translation": it replaces such a SID value with a "private SID", a small negative number, computed from the real SID, an "entry-point", and an offset. It reports a worked IPv6/UDP/CoAP compression Rule example where this reduces a 3994-byte file to 3057 bytes, a 23% reduction. With this technique, an identity's first 24 possible values (private SIDs -1 to -24) each encode on a single byte -- valuable for the identityref values used most intensively across a Rule, such as "mo- equal", "mo-ignore", "cda-value-sent", and "cda-not-sent". The next 232 values (private SIDs -25 to -256) still encode on 2 bytes, an improvement over an untranslated SID from the RFC SID range, which always takes 3 bytes in the "ietf-schc" data model. Beyond that, translation has no effect: the private SID also takes 3 bytes, same as the original. Figure 12 summarizes this. +------------------+------------+-------------+-----------+ | Private SID | Identities | Private SID | Plain SID | | range | covered | bytes | bytes | +------------------+------------+-------------+-----------+ | -1 to -24 | 24 | 1 | 3 | | -25 to -256 | 232 | 2 | 3 | | beyond -256 | -- | 3 | 3 | +------------------+------------+-------------+-----------+ Figure 12: Private SID Encoding Size vs. Plain SID (RFC SID Range) Beyond "entry_point + 256", a private SID can instead specify a Rule's entry-index; beyond that, the remaining space is shared between identity and data values, with no further reserved distinction. 10. Security Considerations TODO Security 11. IANA Considerations TODO: register the (possibly updated) YANG module and namespace URI with IANA, referencing this document instead of RFC 9363. 12. References 12.1. Normative References Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 26] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997, . [RFC7950] Bjorklund, M., Ed., "The YANG 1.1 Data Modeling Language", RFC 7950, DOI 10.17487/RFC7950, August 2016, . [RFC8174] Leiba, B., "Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key Words", BCP 14, RFC 8174, DOI 10.17487/RFC8174, May 2017, . [RFC9595] Veillette, M., Ed., Pelov, A., Ed., Petrov, I., Ed., Bormann, C., and M. Richardson, "YANG Schema Item iDentifier (YANG SID)", RFC 9595, DOI 10.17487/RFC9595, July 2024, . 12.2. Informative References [I-D.barthel-lpwan-oam-schc] Barthel, D., Toutain, L., Kandasamy, A., Dujovne, D. R., and J. C. Zúñiga, "OAM for LPWAN using Static Context Header Compression (SCHC)", Work in Progress, Internet- Draft, draft-barthel-lpwan-oam-schc-05, 27 June 2023, . [I-D.ietf-core-oscore-key-update] Höglund, R. and M. Tiloca, "Key Update for OSCORE (KUDOS)", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ietf- core-oscore-key-update-14, 6 July 2026, . [I-D.ietf-schc-8824-update] Tiloca, M., Toutain, L., Martínez, I., and A. Minaburo, "Static Context Header Compression (SCHC) for the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-schc-8824-update-10, 26 July 2026, . Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 27] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 [I-D.ietf-schc-icmpv6-compression] Barthel, D. and L. Toutain, "Static Context Header Compression (SCHC) for the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6)", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-schc-icmpv6-compression-02, 13 June 2025, . [I-D.ietf-schc-universal-option] Lampin, Q., Minaburo, A., Tiloca, M., and L. Toutain, "Options representation in SCHC YANG Data Models", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-schc-universal- option-01, 17 October 2025, . [I-D.toutain-core-private-sid-translation] Toutain, L., "Private SID Translation for CORECONF", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-toutain-core-private- sid-translation-00, 31 May 2026, . [I-D.toutain-schc-sid-allocation] Minaburo, A. and L. Toutain, "SCHC Sid Allocation", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-toutain-schc-sid- allocation-01, 7 July 2023, . [RFC4443] Conta, A., Deering, S., and M. Gupta, Ed., "Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification", STD 89, RFC 4443, DOI 10.17487/RFC4443, March 2006, . [RFC7252] Shelby, Z., Hartke, K., and C. Bormann, "The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)", RFC 7252, DOI 10.17487/RFC7252, June 2014, . [RFC7641] Hartke, K., "Observing Resources in the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)", RFC 7641, DOI 10.17487/RFC7641, September 2015, . Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 28] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 [RFC7959] Bormann, C. and Z. Shelby, Ed., "Block-Wise Transfers in the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)", RFC 7959, DOI 10.17487/RFC7959, August 2016, . [RFC7967] Bhattacharyya, A., Bandyopadhyay, S., Pal, A., and T. Bose, "Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) Option for No Server Response", RFC 7967, DOI 10.17487/RFC7967, August 2016, . [RFC8407] Bierman, A., "Guidelines for Authors and Reviewers of Documents Containing YANG Data Models", RFC 8407, DOI 10.17487/RFC8407, October 2018, . [RFC8613] Selander, G., Mattsson, J., Palombini, F., and L. Seitz, "Object Security for Constrained RESTful Environments (OSCORE)", RFC 8613, DOI 10.17487/RFC8613, July 2019, . [RFC8724] Minaburo, A., Toutain, L., Gomez, C., Barthel, D., and JC. Zuniga, "SCHC: Generic Framework for Static Context Header Compression and Fragmentation", RFC 8724, DOI 10.17487/RFC8724, April 2020, . [RFC8824] Minaburo, A., Toutain, L., and R. Andreasen, "Static Context Header Compression (SCHC) for the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)", RFC 8824, DOI 10.17487/RFC8824, June 2021, . [RFC9363] Minaburo, A. and L. Toutain, "A YANG Data Model for Static Context Header Compression (SCHC)", RFC 9363, DOI 10.17487/RFC9363, March 2023, . [RFC9441] Zúñiga, J., Gomez, C., Aguilar, S., Toutain, L., Céspedes, S., and D. Wistuba, "Static Context Header Compression (SCHC) Compound Acknowledgement (ACK)", RFC 9441, DOI 10.17487/RFC9441, July 2023, . Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 29] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 Appendix A. Full YANG Module Figure 13 shows the working copy of the "ietf-schc" module, kept up to date with every change discussed in this document, taken from the project's working file ("ietf-schc@2026-09-22.yang"), validated with "pyang" (no errors; see the pre-existing RFC 8407 style findings noted in its own revision history for remaining gaps). file "ietf-schc@2026-09-22.yang" module ietf-schc { yang-version 1.1; namespace "urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-schc"; prefix schc; organization "IETF IPv6 over Low Power Wide-Area Networks (lpwan) Working Group"; contact "WG Web: WG List: Editor: Laurent Toutain Editor: Ana Minaburo "; description "Copyright (c) 2023 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 Revised 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 9363 (https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9363); see the RFC itself for full legal notices. 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 (RFC 2119) (RFC 8174) when, and only when, they appear in all capitals, as shown here. *************************************************************** Generic data model for the Static Context Header Compression Rule for SCHC, based on RFCs 8724 and 8824. Including compression, no-compression, and fragmentation Rules. This module is a YANG data model for SCHC Rules (RFCs 8724 and 8824). RFC 8724 describes compression Rules in an abstract Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 30] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 way through a table. |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | (FID) Rule 1 | |+-------+--+--+--+------------+-----------------+---------------+| ||Field 1|FL|FP|DI|Target Value|Matching Operator|Comp/Decomp Act|| |+-------+--+--+--+------------+-----------------+---------------+| ||Field 2|FL|FP|DI|Target Value|Matching Operator|Comp/Decomp Act|| |+-------+--+--+--+------------+-----------------+---------------+| ||... |..|..|..| ... | ... | ... || |+-------+--+--+--+------------+-----------------+---------------+| ||Field N|FL|FP|DI|Target Value|Matching Operator|Comp/Decomp Act|| |+-------+--+--+--+------------+-----------------+---------------+| |-----------------------------------------------------------------| This module specifies a global data model that can be used for Rule exchanges or modification. It specifies both the data model format and the global identifiers used to describe some operations in fields. This data model applies to both compression and fragmentation."; revision 2026-09-22 { description "Wire the 'nature-management' Rule nature into the data model: widen 'compression-content-universal''s 'entry-universal' must to accept 'nature-compression' or 'nature-management', instead of adding a separate, SID- duplicating 'case management' for an identical structure; widen 'case compression-universal''s if-feature to 'compression or management' accordingly; and move 'management-content' (the 'guard-period' timer) out of 'list rule' into a new top-level 'context' container, gated by 'if-feature management', since it applies to the whole SCHC context rather than to a single Rule."; } revision 2026-08-20 { description "Add kudos FID defined in draft-ietf-core-oscore-key-update. Restore the twenty per-CoAP-option FIDs (fid-coap-option-*) that had been removed in an earlier revision, marking them 'status deprecated' instead of deleting them, per RFC 7950 Section 11 ('Obsolete definitions MUST NOT be removed from published modules') and RFC 8407 Section 4.7 (an object SHOULD stay 'deprecated' for at least one year before moving to 'obsolete'). They are superseded by Universal Options (space-id-coap / universal-value). Rename the '-v2' compression-rule-entry/compression-content/case suffix to '-universal'. Fix the space-id-coap identity description and reference, mistakenly copy-pasted from fid-ipv6-*. Remove the Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 31] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 unused fid-oscore-base-type identity: it was never used as a base by any other identity (the OSCORE suboption FIDs derive directly from fid-coap-option) and was never part of a published RFC, so it can simply be dropped rather than deprecated."; } revision 2026-05-07 { description "add two generic fid unused and payload to be used in any protocol and for padding and payload definition."; } revision 2026-04-05 { description "Alternative: use choice/case to structurally distinguish regular fields (field-id only) from universal options (space-id + mandatory universal-value)."; } revision 2026-02-24 { description " - Add Management feature to support management of SCHC rules. - Introduce RPCs to manage rules."; } revision 2026-01-12 { description "test module to unify universal option and regular entries: - all options are identified with a space-id and an option-id. For regular fields like fid-ipv6-version the space-id is set to 0. - the entries are identified by an index, reducing the keys to a single element. - introduction of a new function to define the length. This option takes an entry-index as parameter to refer to a field indicating length. for instance fl-token-length is now equivalent to: fl-length_byte(index) where index refers to an entry-index for TKL field."; } revision 2025-11-24 { description "This version includes new developments in the SCHC architecture and RFCs published since the initial version of this module. It includes: Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 32] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 * Data model for Compound Ack as described in RFC9441 * new Field IDs defined for CoAP OSCORE support as described in draft-ietf-schc-8824-update. * ICMPv6 FIDs defined in draft-ietf-schc-icmpv6. * Universal options for CoAP and other protocols options parsing as described in draft-ietf-schc-universal-options. * the coap-option FIDs are deprecated in favor of the more generic universal-option Field IDs. "; reference "RFC 9363 A YANG Data Model for Static Context Header Compression (SCHC) RFC 9441 Static Context Header Compression (SCHC) Compound Acknowledgement (ACK)"; } revision 2023-03-01 { description "Initial version from RFC 9363."; reference "RFC 9363 A YANG Data Model for Static Context Header Compression (SCHC)"; } feature compression { description "SCHC compression capabilities are taken into account."; } feature fragmentation { description "SCHC fragmentation capabilities are taken into account."; } feature management { description "SCHC compression capabilities for rule management."; } // ------------------------- // Field ID type definition //-------------------------- // generic value TV definition identity space-field-id-base-type { description "Field ID base type for all fields."; Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 33] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 } identity fid-base-type { base space-field-id-base-type; description "Field ID base type for all fields."; } identity fid-unused { base fid-base-type; description "Padding field in any protocol."; } identity fid-payload { base fid-base-type; description "Payload field in any protocol. This field contains the remaining bytes after the header fields."; } identity fid-ipv6-base-type { base fid-base-type; description "Field ID base type for IPv6 headers described in RFC 8200."; reference "RFC 8200 Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification"; } identity fid-ipv6-version { base fid-ipv6-base-type; description "IPv6 version field."; reference "RFC 8200 Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification"; } identity fid-ipv6-trafficclass { base fid-ipv6-base-type; description "IPv6 Traffic Class field."; reference "RFC 8200 Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification"; } identity fid-ipv6-trafficclass-ds { base fid-ipv6-trafficclass; description Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 34] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 "IPv6 Traffic Class field: Diffserv field."; reference "RFC 8200 Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification, RFC 3168 The Addition of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IP"; } identity fid-ipv6-trafficclass-ecn { base fid-ipv6-trafficclass; description "IPv6 Traffic Class field: ECN field."; reference "RFC 8200 Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification, RFC 3168 The Addition of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IP"; } identity fid-ipv6-flowlabel { base fid-ipv6-base-type; description "IPv6 Flow Label field."; reference "RFC 8200 Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification"; } identity fid-ipv6-payload-length { base fid-ipv6-base-type; description "IPv6 Payload Length field."; reference "RFC 8200 Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification"; } identity fid-ipv6-nextheader { base fid-ipv6-base-type; description "IPv6 Next Header field."; reference "RFC 8200 Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification"; } identity fid-ipv6-hoplimit { base fid-ipv6-base-type; description "IPv6 Next Header field."; reference "RFC 8200 Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification"; } Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 35] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 identity fid-ipv6-devprefix { base fid-ipv6-base-type; description "Corresponds to either the source address or the destination address prefix of RFC 8200 depending on whether it is an uplink or a downlink message."; reference "RFC 8200 Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification"; } identity fid-ipv6-deviid { base fid-ipv6-base-type; description "Corresponds to either the source address or the destination address IID of RFC 8200 depending on whether it is an uplink or a downlink message."; reference "RFC 8200 Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification"; } identity fid-ipv6-appprefix { base fid-ipv6-base-type; description "Corresponds to either the source address or the destination address prefix of RFC 8200 depending on whether it is an uplink or a downlink message."; reference "RFC 8200 Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification"; } identity fid-ipv6-appiid { base fid-ipv6-base-type; description "Corresponds to either the source address or the destination address IID of RFC 8200 depending on whether it is an uplink or a downlink message."; reference "RFC 8200 Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification"; } identity fid-udp-base-type { base fid-base-type; description "Field ID base type for UDP headers described in RFC 768."; reference "RFC 768 User Datagram Protocol"; } Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 36] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 identity fid-udp-dev-port { base fid-udp-base-type; description "UDP source or destination port, if uplink or downlink communication, respectively."; reference "RFC 768 User Datagram Protocol"; } identity fid-udp-app-port { base fid-udp-base-type; description "UDP destination or source port, if uplink or downlink communication, respectively."; reference "RFC 768 User Datagram Protocol"; } identity fid-udp-length { base fid-udp-base-type; description "UDP length."; reference "RFC 768 User Datagram Protocol"; } identity fid-udp-checksum { base fid-udp-base-type; description "UDP length."; reference "RFC 768 User Datagram Protocol"; } identity fid-coap-base-type { base fid-base-type; description "Field ID base type for UDP headers described."; reference "RFC 7252 The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)"; } identity fid-coap-version { base fid-coap-base-type; description "CoAP version."; reference "RFC 7252 The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)"; Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 37] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 } identity fid-coap-type { base fid-coap-base-type; description "CoAP type."; reference "RFC 7252 The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)"; } identity fid-coap-tkl { base fid-coap-base-type; description "CoAP token length."; reference "RFC 7252 The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)"; } identity fid-coap-code { base fid-coap-base-type; description "CoAP code."; reference "RFC 7252 The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)"; } identity fid-coap-code-class { base fid-coap-code; description "CoAP code class."; reference "RFC 7252 The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)"; } identity fid-coap-code-detail { base fid-coap-code; description "CoAP code detail."; reference "RFC 7252 The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)"; } identity fid-coap-mid { base fid-coap-base-type; description "CoAP message ID."; reference "RFC 7252 The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)"; Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 38] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 } identity fid-coap-token { base fid-coap-base-type; description "CoAP token."; reference "RFC 7252 The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)"; } identity fid-coap-option { base fid-coap-base-type; description "Generic CoAP option."; reference "RFC 7252 The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)"; } identity fid-coap-option-if-match { base fid-coap-option; status deprecated; description "CoAP option If-Match. Deprecated in favor of Universal Options (space-id-coap / universal-value = 1)."; reference "RFC 7252 The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)"; } identity fid-coap-option-uri-host { base fid-coap-option; status deprecated; description "CoAP option Uri-Host. Deprecated in favor of Universal Options (space-id-coap / universal-value = 3)."; reference "RFC 7252 The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)"; } identity fid-coap-option-etag { base fid-coap-option; status deprecated; description "CoAP option ETag. Deprecated in favor of Universal Options (space-id-coap / universal-value = 4)."; reference "RFC 7252 The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)"; } Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 39] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 identity fid-coap-option-if-none-match { base fid-coap-option; status deprecated; description "CoAP option if-none-match. Deprecated in favor of Universal Options (space-id-coap / universal-value = 5)."; reference "RFC 7252 The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)"; } identity fid-coap-option-observe { base fid-coap-option; status deprecated; description "CoAP option Observe. Deprecated in favor of Universal Options (space-id-coap / universal-value = 6)."; reference "RFC 7641 Observing Resources in the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)"; } identity fid-coap-option-uri-port { base fid-coap-option; status deprecated; description "CoAP option Uri-Port. Deprecated in favor of Universal Options (space-id-coap / universal-value = 7)."; reference "RFC 7252 The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)"; } identity fid-coap-option-location-path { base fid-coap-option; status deprecated; description "CoAP option Location-Path. Deprecated in favor of Universal Options (space-id-coap / universal-value = 8)."; reference "RFC 7252 The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)"; } identity fid-coap-option-uri-path { base fid-coap-option; status deprecated; description "CoAP option Uri-Path. Deprecated in favor of Universal Options (space-id-coap / universal-value = 11)."; reference Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 40] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 "RFC 7252 The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)"; } identity fid-coap-option-content-format { base fid-coap-option; status deprecated; description "CoAP option Content Format. Deprecated in favor of Universal Options (space-id-coap / universal-value = 12)."; reference "RFC 7252 The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)"; } identity fid-coap-option-max-age { base fid-coap-option; status deprecated; description "CoAP option Max-Age. Deprecated in favor of Universal Options (space-id-coap / universal-value = 14)."; reference "RFC 7252 The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)"; } identity fid-coap-option-uri-query { base fid-coap-option; status deprecated; description "CoAP option Uri-Query. Deprecated in favor of Universal Options (space-id-coap / universal-value = 15)."; reference "RFC 7252 The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)"; } identity fid-coap-option-accept { base fid-coap-option; status deprecated; description "CoAP option Accept. Deprecated in favor of Universal Options (space-id-coap / universal-value = 17)."; reference "RFC 7252 The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)"; } identity fid-coap-option-location-query { base fid-coap-option; status deprecated; description "CoAP option Location-Query. Deprecated in favor of Universal Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 41] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 Options (space-id-coap / universal-value = 20)."; reference "RFC 7252 The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)"; } identity fid-coap-option-block2 { base fid-coap-option; status deprecated; description "CoAP option Block2. Deprecated in favor of Universal Options (space-id-coap / universal-value = 23)."; reference "RFC 7959 Block-Wise Transfers in the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)"; } identity fid-coap-option-block1 { base fid-coap-option; status deprecated; description "CoAP option Block1. Deprecated in favor of Universal Options (space-id-coap / universal-value = 27)."; reference "RFC 7959 Block-Wise Transfers in the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)"; } identity fid-coap-option-size2 { base fid-coap-option; status deprecated; description "CoAP option Size2. Deprecated in favor of Universal Options (space-id-coap / universal-value = 28)."; reference "RFC 7959 Block-Wise Transfers in the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)"; } identity fid-coap-option-proxy-uri { base fid-coap-option; status deprecated; description "CoAP option Proxy-Uri. Deprecated in favor of Universal Options (space-id-coap / universal-value = 35)."; reference "RFC 7252 The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)"; } Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 42] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 identity fid-coap-option-proxy-scheme { base fid-coap-option; status deprecated; description "CoAP option Proxy-Scheme. Deprecated in favor of Universal Options (space-id-coap / universal-value = 39)."; reference "RFC 7252 The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)"; } identity fid-coap-option-size1 { base fid-coap-option; status deprecated; description "CoAP option Size1. Deprecated in favor of Universal Options (space-id-coap / universal-value = 60)."; reference "RFC 7252 The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)"; } identity fid-coap-option-no-response { base fid-coap-option; status deprecated; description "CoAP option No response. Deprecated in favor of Universal Options (space-id-coap / universal-value = 258)."; reference "RFC 7967 Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) Option for No Server Response"; } identity fid-coap-option-oscore-flags { base fid-coap-option; description "CoAP option OSCORE flags."; reference "RFC 8824 Static Context Header Compression (SCHC) for the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) (see Section 6.4)"; } identity fid-coap-option-oscore-flags-flagbits { base fid-coap-option-oscore-flags; description "First 5 bits of the OSCORE flags field forming flags subfield."; reference "RFC 8824 Static Context Header Compression (SCHC) for the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) (see Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 43] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 Section 6.4)"; } identity fid-coap-option-oscore-flags-n { base fid-coap-option-oscore-flags; description "last 3 bits of the OSCORE flags field giving the length of Partial IV."; reference "RFC 8824 Static Context Header Compression (SCHC) for the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) (see Section 6.4)"; } identity fid-coap-option-oscore-piv { base fid-coap-option; description "CoAP option OSCORE Partial IV."; reference "RFC 8824 Static Context Header Compression (SCHC) for the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) (see Section 6.4)"; } identity fid-coap-option-oscore-kid { base fid-coap-option; description "CoAP option OSCORE Key ID."; reference "RFC 8824 Static Context Header Compression (SCHC) for the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) (see Section 6.4)"; } identity fid-coap-option-oscore-kidctx { base fid-coap-option; description "CoAP option OSCORE Key ID Context."; reference "RFC 8824 Static Context Header Compression (SCHC) for the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)(see Section 6.4)"; } identity fid-coap-option-kudos-x { base fid-coap-option; description Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 44] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 "x field contained in the kudos option defined in draft-ietf-core-oscore-key-update."; reference "draft-ietf-core-oscore-key-update"; } identity fid-coap-option-kudos-x-flagbits { base fid-coap-option-kudos-x; description "4 first bits of the x field in the kudos option defined in draft-ietf-core-oscore-key-update."; reference "draft-ietf-core-oscore-key-update"; } identity fid-coap-option-kudos-x-m { base fid-coap-option-kudos-x; description "4 last bits of the x field in the kudos option defined in draft-ietf-core-oscore-key-update."; reference "draft-ietf-core-oscore-key-update"; } identity fid-coap-option-kudos-nonce { base fid-coap-option; description "CoAP option kudos carrying the nonce."; reference "draft-ietf-core-oscore-key-update"; } identity fid-icmpv6-base-type { base schc:fid-base-type; description "Field IP base type for ICMPv6 headers described in RFC 4443"; reference "RFC 4443 Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification"; } identity fid-icmpv6-type { base fid-icmpv6-base-type; description "ICMPv6 code field present in all ICMPv6 messages."; } Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 45] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 identity fid-icmpv6-code { base fid-icmpv6-base-type; description "ICMPv6 code field present in all ICMPv6 messages."; } identity fid-icmpv6-checksum { base fid-icmpv6-base-type; description "ICMPv6 checksum field present in all ICMPv6 messages."; } identity fid-icmpv6-mtu { base fid-icmpv6-base-type; description "ICMPv6 MTU, present in Packet Too Big message."; } identity fid-icmpv6-pointer { base fid-icmpv6-base-type; description "ICMPv6 Pointer, present in Parameter Problem message."; } identity fid-icmpv6-identifier { base fid-icmpv6-base-type; description "ICMPv6 identifier field, present in Echo Request/Reply message."; } identity fid-icmpv6-sequence { base fid-icmpv6-base-type; description "ICMPv6 sequence number field, present in Echo Request/Reply message."; } identity fid-icmpv6-payload { base fid-icmpv6-base-type; description "ICMPv6 payload following ICMPv6 header. If payload is empty, this field exists with a length of 0."; } //---------------------------------- // Universal Option space IDs //---------------------------------- Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 46] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 identity space-id-base-type { base schc:space-field-id-base-type; description "Base identity for a Universal Option space. Several protocols define options (e.g. CoAP); each such protocol is identified by an identity derived from this base type."; } identity space-id-coap { base space-id-base-type; description "Space ID identifying the CoAP option space."; reference "RFC 7252 The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)"; } //---------------------------------- // Field Length type definition //---------------------------------- identity fl-base-type { description "Used to extend Field Length functions."; } identity fl-variable { base fl-base-type; description "Residue length in bytes is sent as defined for CoAP."; reference "RFC 8824 Static Context Header Compression (SCHC) for the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) (see Section 5.3)"; } identity fl-variable-bits { base fl-base-type; description "Residue length in bits is sent as defined for CoAP."; reference "NOT YET DEFINED IN RFCs. This function is a generalization of fl-variable to support bit-level length definition."; } identity fl-token-length { base fl-base-type; description "Residue length in bytes is sent as defined for CoAP."; Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 47] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 reference "RFC 8824 Static Context Header Compression (SCHC) for the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) (see Section 4.5)"; } identity fl-length-bytes { base fl-base-type; description "This function return the length a field by its index in bytes. This is a generalation of fl-token-length."; } identity fl-length-bits { base fl-base-type; description "This function return the length in bits of a field by its index in bits. "; } identity fl-remaining { base fl-base-type; description "Field length is not explicitly carried in the Compression Residue. This function is used for a field that extends to the end of the SCHC packet, such as a trailing payload."; } //--------------------------------- // Direction Indicator type //--------------------------------- identity di-base-type { description "Used to extend Direction Indicators."; } identity di-bidirectional { base di-base-type; description "Direction Indicator of bidirectionality."; reference "RFC 8724 SCHC: Generic Framework for Static Context Header Compression and Fragmentation (see Section 7.1)"; } Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 48] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 identity di-up { base di-base-type; description "Direction Indicator of uplink."; reference "RFC 8724 SCHC: Generic Framework for Static Context Header Compression and Fragmentation (see Section 7.1)"; } identity di-down { base di-base-type; description "Direction Indicator of downlink."; reference "RFC 8724 SCHC: Generic Framework for Static Context Header Compression and Fragmentation (see Section 7.1)"; } //---------------------------------- // Matching Operator type definition //---------------------------------- identity mo-base-type { description "Matching Operator: used in the Rule selection process to check if a Target Value matches the field's value."; reference "RFC 8724 SCHC: Generic Framework for Static Context Header Compression and Fragmentation (see Section 7.2)"; } identity mo-equal { base mo-base-type; description "equal MO."; reference "RFC 8724 SCHC: Generic Framework for Static Context Header Compression and Fragmentation (see Section 7.3)"; } identity mo-ignore { base mo-base-type; description Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 49] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 "ignore MO."; reference "RFC 8724 SCHC: Generic Framework for Static Context Header Compression and Fragmentation (see Section 7.3)"; } identity mo-msb { base mo-base-type; description "MSB MO."; reference "RFC 8724 SCHC: Generic Framework for Static Context Header Compression and Fragmentation (see Section 7.3)"; } identity mo-match-mapping { base mo-base-type; description "match-mapping MO."; reference "RFC 8724 SCHC: Generic Framework for Static Context Header Compression and Fragmentation (see Section 7.3)"; } identity mo-rule-match { base schc:mo-base-type; description "Macthing operator return true, if the TV matches a rule keeping UP and DOWN direction."; } identity mo-rev-rule-match { base schc:mo-base-type; description "Macthing operator return true, if the TV matches a rule reversing UP and DOWN direction."; } //------------------------------ // CDA type definition //------------------------------ identity cda-base-type { description "Compression Decompression Actions. Specify the action to be applied to the field's value in a specific Rule."; Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 50] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 reference "RFC 8724 SCHC: Generic Framework for Static Context Header Compression and Fragmentation (see Section 7.2)"; } identity cda-not-sent { base cda-base-type; description "not-sent CDA."; reference "RFC 8724 SCHC: Generic Framework for Static Context Header Compression and Fragmentation (see Section 7.4)"; } identity cda-value-sent { base cda-base-type; description "value-sent CDA."; reference "RFC 8724 SCHC: Generic Framework for Static Context Header Compression and Fragmentation (see Section 7.4)"; } identity cda-lsb { base cda-base-type; description "Least Significant Bit (LSB) CDA."; reference "RFC 8724 SCHC: Generic Framework for Static Context Header Compression and Fragmentation (see Section 7.4)"; } identity cda-mapping-sent { base cda-base-type; description "mapping-sent CDA."; reference "RFC 8724 SCHC: Generic Framework for Static Context Header Compression and Fragmentation (see Section 7.4)"; } identity cda-compute { base cda-base-type; Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 51] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 description "compute-* CDA."; reference "RFC 8724 SCHC: Generic Framework for Static Context Header Compression and Fragmentation (see Section 7.4)"; } identity cda-deviid { base cda-base-type; description "DevIID CDA."; reference "RFC 8724 SCHC: Generic Framework for Static Context Header Compression and Fragmentation (see Section 7.4)"; } identity cda-appiid { base cda-base-type; description "Application Interface Identifier (AppIID) CDA."; reference "RFC 8724 SCHC: Generic Framework for Static Context Header Compression and Fragmentation (see Section 7.4)"; } identity cda-compress-sent { base schc:cda-base-type; description "Send a compressed version of TV keeping UP and DOWN direction."; } identity cda-rev-compress-sent { base schc:cda-base-type; description "Send a compressed version of TV reversing UP and DOWN direction."; } // -- type definition typedef space-field-id-type { type identityref { base space-field-id-base-type; } Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 52] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 description "Field ID generic type."; reference "RFC 8724 SCHC: Generic Framework for Static Context Header Compression and Fragmentation"; } typedef fid-type { type identityref { base fid-base-type; } description "Field ID type for regular protocol fields (IPv6, UDP, CoAP, etc.). Used in the regular-field case of compression-rule-entry."; } typedef space-id-type { type identityref { base space-id-base-type; } description "Space ID type for universal option spaces (CoAP options, etc.). Used in the universal-option case of compression-rule-entry."; } typedef fl-type { type identityref { base fl-base-type; } description "Function used to indicate Field Length."; reference "RFC 8724 SCHC: Generic Framework for Static Context Header Compression and Fragmentation"; } typedef di-type { type identityref { base di-base-type; } description "Direction in LPWAN network: up when emitted by the device, down when received by the device, or bi when emitted or received by the device."; reference "RFC 8724 SCHC: Generic Framework for Static Context Header Compression and Fragmentation"; } Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 53] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 typedef mo-type { type identityref { base mo-base-type; } description "Matching Operator (MO) to compare field values with Target Values."; reference "RFC 8724 SCHC: Generic Framework for Static Context Header Compression and Fragmentation"; } typedef cda-type { type identityref { base cda-base-type; } description "Compression Decompression Action to compress or decompress a field."; reference "RFC 8724 SCHC: Generic Framework for Static Context Header Compression and Fragmentation"; } // -- FRAGMENTATION TYPE // -- fragmentation modes identity fragmentation-mode-base-type { description "Define the fragmentation mode."; reference "RFC 8724 SCHC: Generic Framework for Static Context Header Compression and Fragmentation"; } identity fragmentation-mode-no-ack { base fragmentation-mode-base-type; description "No-ACK mode."; reference "RFC 8724 SCHC: Generic Framework for Static Context Header Compression and Fragmentation"; } identity fragmentation-mode-ack-always { base fragmentation-mode-base-type; description "ACK-Always mode."; Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 54] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 reference "RFC 8724 SCHC: Generic Framework for Static Context Header Compression and Fragmentation"; } identity fragmentation-mode-ack-on-error { base fragmentation-mode-base-type; description "ACK-on-Error mode."; reference "RFC 8724 SCHC: Generic Framework for Static Context Header Compression and Fragmentation"; } typedef fragmentation-mode-type { type identityref { base fragmentation-mode-base-type; } description "Define the type used for fragmentation mode in Rules."; } // -- Ack behavior identity ack-behavior-base-type { description "Define when to send an Acknowledgment."; reference "RFC 8724 SCHC: Generic Framework for Static Context Header Compression and Fragmentation"; } identity ack-behavior-after-all-0 { base ack-behavior-base-type; description "Fragmentation expects ACK after sending All-0 fragment."; } identity ack-behavior-after-all-1 { base ack-behavior-base-type; description "Fragmentation expects ACK after sending All-1 fragment."; } identity ack-behavior-by-layer2 { base ack-behavior-base-type; description "Layer 2 defines when to send an ACK."; Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 55] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 } typedef ack-behavior-type { type identityref { base ack-behavior-base-type; } description "Define the type used for ACK behavior in Rules."; } // -- All-1 with data types identity all-1-data-base-type { description "Type to define when to send an Acknowledgment message."; reference "RFC 8724 SCHC: Generic Framework for Static Context Header Compression and Fragmentation"; } identity all-1-data-no { base all-1-data-base-type; description "All-1 contains no tiles."; } identity all-1-data-yes { base all-1-data-base-type; description "All-1 MUST contain a tile."; } identity all-1-data-sender-choice { base all-1-data-base-type; description "Fragmentation process chooses to send tiles or not in All-1."; } typedef all-1-data-type { type identityref { base all-1-data-base-type; } description "Define the type used for All-1 format in Rules."; } // -- RCS algorithm types Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 56] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 identity rcs-algorithm-base-type { description "Identify which algorithm is used to compute RCS. The algorithm also defines the size of the RCS field."; reference "RFC 8724 SCHC: Generic Framework for Static Context Header Compression and Fragmentation"; } identity rcs-crc32 { base rcs-algorithm-base-type; description "CRC32 defined as default RCS in RFC 8724. This RCS is 4 bytes long."; reference "RFC 8724 SCHC: Generic Framework for Static Context Header Compression and Fragmentation"; } typedef rcs-algorithm-type { type identityref { base rcs-algorithm-base-type; } description "Define the type for RCS algorithm in Rules."; } // --------- COMPOUND ACK TYPE DEFINITION --------- identity bitmap-format-base-type { description "Define how the bitmap is formed in ACK messages. "; reference "RFC9441 Static Context Header Compression (SCHC) Compound Acknowledgement (ACK)"; } identity bitmap-RFC8724 { base bitmap-format-base-type; description "Bitmap by default as defined in RFC 8724."; reference "RFC 8724 SCHC: Generic Framework for Static Context Header Compression and Fragmentation. RFC9441 Static Context Header Compression (SCHC) Compound Acknowledgement (ACK)"; } Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 57] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 identity bitmap-compound-ack { base bitmap-format-base-type; description "Compound ACK allows several bitmaps in an ACK message."; reference "RFC9441 Static Context Header Compression (SCHC) Compound Acknowledgement (ACK)"; } typedef bitmap-format-type { type identityref { base bitmap-format-base-type; } description "Type of bitmap used in Rules."; reference "RFC9441 Static Context Header Compression (SCHC) Compound Acknowledgement (ACK)"; } // -------- RULE ENTRY DEFINITION ------------ grouping tv-struct { description "Defines the Target Value element. If the header field contains a text, the binary sequence uses the same encoding. field-id allows the conversion to the appropriate type."; leaf index { type uint16; description "Index gives the position in the matching list. If only one element is present, index is 0. Otherwise, index is the order in the matching list, starting at 0."; } leaf value { type binary; description "Target Value content as an untyped binary value."; } reference "RFC 8724 SCHC: Generic Framework for Static Context Header Compression and Fragmentation"; } grouping compression-rule-entry { status deprecated; description "These entries define a compression entry (i.e., a line), as defined in RFC 8724. Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 58] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 +-------+--+--+--+------------+-----------------+---------------+ |Field 1|FL|FP|DI|Target Value|Matching Operator|Comp/Decomp Act| +-------+--+--+--+------------+-----------------+---------------+ An entry in a compression Rule is composed of 7 elements: - Field ID: the header field to be compressed - Field Length : either a positive integer or a function - Field Position: a positive (and possibly equal to 0) integer - Direction Indicator: an indication in which direction the compression and decompression process is effective - Target Value: a value against which the header field is compared - Matching Operator: the comparison operation and optional associate parameters - Comp./Decomp. Action: the compression or decompression action and optional parameters Deprecated in favor of 'compression-rule-entry-universal', which adds support for Universal Options."; reference "RFC 9363 A YANG Data Model for Static Context Header Compression (SCHC)"; leaf field-id { type schc:fid-type; mandatory true; description "Field ID, identify a field in the header with a YANG identity reference."; } leaf field-length { type union { type uint8; type schc:fl-type; } mandatory true; description "Field Length, expressed in number of bits if the length is known when the Rule is created or through a specific function if the length is variable."; } leaf field-position { type uint8; mandatory true; description "Field Position in the header is an integer. Position 1 matches the first occurrence of a field in the header, while incremented position values match subsequent occurrences. Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 59] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 Position 0 means that this entry matches a field irrespective of its position of occurrence in the header. Be aware that the decompressed header may have position-0 fields ordered differently than they appeared in the original packet."; } leaf direction-indicator { type schc:di-type; mandatory true; description "Direction Indicator, indicate if this field must be considered for Rule selection or ignored based on the direction (bidirectional, only uplink, or only downlink)."; } list target-value { key "index"; uses tv-struct; description "A list of values to compare with the header field value. If Target Value is a singleton, position must be 0. For use as a matching list for the mo-match-mapping Matching Operator, index should take consecutive values starting from 0."; } leaf matching-operator { type schc:mo-type; must "../target-value or derived-from-or-self(., 'mo-ignore')" { error-message "mo-equal, mo-msb, and mo-match-mapping need target-value"; description "target-value is not required for mo-ignore."; } must "not (derived-from-or-self(., 'mo-msb')) or ../matching-operator-value" { error-message "mo-msb requires length value"; } mandatory true; description "MO: Matching Operator."; reference "RFC 8724 SCHC: Generic Framework for Static Context Header Compression and Fragmentation (see Section 7.3)"; } list matching-operator-value { key "index"; Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 60] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 uses tv-struct; description "Matching Operator Arguments, based on TV structure to allow several arguments. In RFC 8724, only the MSB Matching Operator needs arguments (a single argument, which is the number of most significant bits to be matched)."; } leaf comp-decomp-action { type schc:cda-type; must "../target-value or derived-from-or-self(., 'cda-value-sent') or derived-from-or-self(., 'cda-compute') or derived-from-or-self(., 'cda-appiid') or derived-from-or-self(., 'cda-deviid')" { error-message "cda-not-sent, cda-lsb, and cda-mapping-sent need target-value"; description "target-value is not required for some CDA."; } mandatory true; description "CDA: Compression Decompression Action."; reference "RFC 8724 SCHC: Generic Framework for Static Context Header Compression and Fragmentation (see Section 7.4)"; } list comp-decomp-action-value { key "index"; uses tv-struct; description "CDA arguments, based on a TV structure, in order to allow for several arguments. The CDAs specified in RFC 8724 require no argument."; } } grouping compression-rule-entry-universal { description "These entries define a compression entry (i.e., a line), as defined in RFC 8724. The format has been generalized to include universal options. An entry in a compression Rule is composed of 7 elements: - entry-index: position in the rule. - space field ID: the identityref of a specific field or space ID followed by an universal value. Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 61] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 - universal-value: the value associated to the space field ID to identify a specific field in the space. For regular fields, this value is 0 and the space field ID is the field ID. For universal options, the space field ID identifies the type of option and the universal value identifies the specific option. - Field Length : either a positive integer or a function - Field Position: a positive (and possibly equal to 0) integer - Direction Indicator: an indication in which direction the compression and decompression process is effective - Target Value: a value against which the header field is compared - Matching Operator: the comparison operation and optional associate parameters - Comp./Decomp. Action: the compression or decompression action and optional parameters "; leaf entry-index { type uint16; description "Sequential position of the entry in the user-ordered Rule list."; } choice field-or-space { mandatory true; description "Distinguishes a regular protocol field from a universal option. Exactly one case must be present: - regular-field: a standard protocol field identified by a field ID (e.g., fid-ipv6-version, fid-udp-dev-port). - universal-option: a generic option identified by a space ID (e.g., space-id-coap) plus a numeric option value (e.g., the CoAP option number)."; case regular-field { description "The entry refers to a regular protocol field. No universal-value is needed."; leaf field-id { type schc:fid-type; mandatory true; description "Field ID of a regular protocol field."; } } Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 62] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 case universal-option { description "The entry refers to a universal option within a given space. Both space-id and universal-value are required."; leaf space-id { type schc:space-id-type; mandatory true; description "Space ID identifying the protocol option space (e.g., space-id-coap for CoAP options)."; } leaf universal-value { type uint64; mandatory true; description "Numeric value identifying the specific option within the space (e.g., the CoAP option number)."; } } // case universal-option } // choice field-or-space leaf field-length { type union { type uint8; type schc:fl-type; } mandatory true; description "Field Length, expressed in number of bits if the length is known when the Rule is created or through a specific function if the length is variable."; } leaf field-length-value { type uint16; description "Argument used by Field Length functions. For fl-length-bytes and fl-length-bits, this value is the entry-index of the Rule entry whose numerical field value specifies the length."; } leaf field-position { type uint8; mandatory true; description "Field Position in the header is an integer. Position 1 matches the first occurrence of a field in the header, while incremented position values match subsequent Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 63] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 occurrences. Position 0 means that this entry matches a field irrespective of its position of occurrence in the header. Be aware that the decompressed header may have position-0 fields ordered differently than they appeared in the original packet."; } leaf direction-indicator { type schc:di-type; mandatory true; description "Direction Indicator, indicate if this field must be considered for Rule selection or ignored based on the direction (bidirectional, only uplink, or only downlink)."; } list target-value { key "index"; uses tv-struct; description "A list of values to compare with the header field value. If Target Value is a singleton, position must be 0. For use as a matching list for the mo-match-mapping Matching Operator, index should take consecutive values starting from 0."; } leaf matching-operator { type schc:mo-type; must "../target-value or derived-from-or-self(., 'mo-ignore')" { error-message "mo-equal, mo-msb, and mo-match-mapping need target-value"; description "target-value is not required for mo-ignore."; } must "not (derived-from-or-self(., 'mo-msb')) or ../matching-operator-value" { error-message "mo-msb requires length value"; } mandatory true; description "MO: Matching Operator."; reference "RFC 8724 SCHC: Generic Framework for Static Context Header Compression and Fragmentation (see Section 7.3)"; } list matching-operator-value { Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 64] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 key "index"; uses tv-struct; description "Matching Operator Arguments, based on TV structure to allow several arguments. In RFC 8724, only the MSB Matching Operator needs arguments (a single argument, which is the number of most significant bits to be matched)."; } leaf comp-decomp-action { type schc:cda-type; must "../target-value or derived-from-or-self(., 'cda-value-sent') or derived-from-or-self(., 'cda-compute') or derived-from-or-self(., 'cda-appiid') or derived-from-or-self(., 'cda-deviid')" { error-message "cda-not-sent, cda-lsb, and cda-mapping-sent need target-value"; description "target-value is not required for some CDA."; } mandatory true; description "CDA: Compression Decompression Action."; reference "RFC 8724 SCHC: Generic Framework for Static Context Header Compression and Fragmentation (see Section 7.4)"; } list comp-decomp-action-value { key "index"; uses tv-struct; description "CDA arguments, based on a TV structure, in order to allow for several arguments. The CDAs specified in RFC 8724 require no argument."; } } // --Rule nature identity nature-base-type { description "A Rule, identified by its RuleID, is used for a single purpose. RFC 8724 defines 3 natures: compression, no-compression, and fragmentation."; reference Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 65] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 "RFC 8724 SCHC: Generic Framework for Static Context Header Compression and Fragmentation (see Section 6)"; } identity nature-compression { base nature-base-type; description "Identify a compression Rule."; reference "RFC 8724 SCHC: Generic Framework for Static Context Header Compression and Fragmentation (see Section 6)"; } identity nature-no-compression { base nature-base-type; description "Identify a no-compression Rule."; reference "RFC 8724 SCHC: Generic Framework for Static Context Header Compression and Fragmentation (see Section 6)"; } identity nature-fragmentation { base nature-base-type; description "Identify a fragmentation Rule."; reference "RFC 8724 SCHC: Generic Framework for Static Context Header Compression and Fragmentation (see Section 6)"; } typedef nature-type { type identityref { base nature-base-type; } description "Defines the type to indicate the nature of the Rule."; } identity nature-management { base nature-base-type; description "Identify a management Rule. Management Rules use the compression Rule structure to operate on the SCHC Context."; /* Reference to be added when the Rule Management specification is available. */ } Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 66] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 identity action-base-type { description "Action applied to a packet matching a compression Rule, once compression has been performed (or before decompression is performed in the other direction). The default behavior of RFC 8724 is to hand the SCHC Packet over to the lower layer; other actions allow an intermediate entity, typically the SCHC gateway, to process the packet locally instead."; reference "draft-barthel-lpwan-oam-schc-05 OAM for LPWAN using Static Context Header Compression (SCHC) (see Section 5)"; } identity action-forward { base action-base-type; description "The packet is handed over to the lower layer. This is the default behavior specified in RFC 8724."; reference "RFC 8724 SCHC: Generic Framework for Static Context Header Compression and Fragmentation"; } identity action-proxy-ping { base action-base-type; description "The packet is not handed over to the lower layer but processed locally by a ping proxy, which answers the ICMPv6 Echo Request on behalf of the Device."; reference "draft-barthel-lpwan-oam-schc-05 OAM for LPWAN using Static Context Header Compression (SCHC) (see Section 5)"; } typedef action-type { type identityref { base action-base-type; } description "Defines the type to indicate the action associated with a compression Rule."; } grouping compression-content { status deprecated; list entry { status deprecated; must "derived-from-or-self(../rule-nature, Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 67] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 'nature-compression')" { error-message "Rule nature must be compression"; } key "field-id field-position direction-indicator"; uses compression-rule-entry { status deprecated; } description "A compression Rule is a list of Rule entries, each describing a header field. An entry is identified through a field-id, its position in the packet, and its direction."; } description "Define a compression Rule composed of a list of entries. Deprecated in favor of 'compression-content-universal', which adds support for Universal Options."; reference "RFC 9363 A YANG Data Model for Static Context Header Compression (SCHC)"; } grouping compression-content-universal { list entry-universal { must "derived-from-or-self(../rule-nature, 'nature-compression') or derived-from-or-self(../rule-nature, 'nature-management')" { error-message "Rule nature must be compression or management"; } key "entry-index"; ordered-by user; uses compression-rule-entry-universal; description "A compression Rule is a list of Rule entries, each describing a header field or Universal Option. An entry is identified by its entry-index."; } leaf action { type action-type; default "schc:action-forward"; description "Action to be applied to a packet matching this Rule, after Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 68] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 compression or before decompression. When absent, the packet is sent to the lower layer as specified in RFC 8724."; } list action-value { key "index"; uses tv-struct; description "Parameters associated with the action, based on a TV structure, in order to allow for several arguments. 'action-forward' requires no argument."; } description "Define a compression Rule composed of a list of entries, using the Universal-Option-aware 'compression-rule-entry-universal'."; reference "RFC 8724 SCHC: Generic Framework for Static Context Header Compression and Fragmentation"; } grouping fragmentation-content { description "This grouping defines the fragmentation parameters for all the modes (No ACK, ACK Always, and ACK on Error) specified in RFC 8724."; leaf fragmentation-mode { type schc:fragmentation-mode-type; must "derived-from-or-self(../rule-nature, 'nature-fragmentation')" { error-message "Rule nature must be fragmentation"; } mandatory true; description "Which fragmentation mode is used (No ACK, ACK Always, or ACK on Error)."; } leaf l2-word-size { type uint8; default "8"; description "Size, in bits, of the Layer 2 Word."; } leaf direction { type schc:di-type; must "derived-from-or-self(., 'di-up') or derived-from-or-self(., 'di-down')" { Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 69] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 error-message "Direction for fragmentation Rules are up or down."; } mandatory true; description "MUST be up or down, bidirectional MUST NOT be used."; } // SCHC Frag header format leaf dtag-size { type uint8; default "0"; description "Size, in bits, of the DTag field (T variable from RFC 8724)."; } leaf w-size { when "derived-from-or-self(../fragmentation-mode, 'fragmentation-mode-ack-on-error') or derived-from-or-self(../fragmentation-mode, 'fragmentation-mode-ack-always') "; type uint8; description "Size, in bits, of the window field (M variable from RFC 8724)."; } leaf fcn-size { type uint8; mandatory true; description "Size, in bits, of the FCN field (N variable from RFC 8724)."; } leaf rcs-algorithm { type rcs-algorithm-type; default "schc:rcs-crc32"; description "Algorithm used for RCS. The algorithm specifies the RCS size."; } // SCHC fragmentation protocol parameters leaf maximum-packet-size { type uint16; default "1280"; description "When decompression is done, packet size must not strictly exceed this limit, expressed in bytes."; } Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 70] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 leaf window-size { type uint16; description "By default, if not specified, the FCN value is 2^w-size - 1. This value should not be exceeded. Possible FCN values are between 0 and window-size - 1."; } leaf max-interleaved-frames { type uint8; default "1"; description "Maximum of simultaneously fragmented frames. Maximum value is 2^dtag-size. All DTag values can be used, but more than max-interleaved-frames MUST NOT be active at any time."; } container inactivity-timer { leaf ticks-duration { type uint8; default "20"; description "Duration of one tick in microseconds: 2^ticks-duration/10^6 = 1.048s."; } leaf ticks-numbers { type uint16 { range "0..max"; } description "Timer duration = ticks-numbers*2^ticks-duration / 10^6."; } description "Duration in seconds of the Inactivity Timer; 0 indicates that the timer is disabled. Allows a precision from microsecond to year by sending the tick-duration value. For instance: tick-duration: smallest value <-> highest value 20: 00y 000d 00h 00m 01s.048575<->00y 000d 19h 05m 18s.428159 21: 00y 000d 00h 00m 02s.097151<->00y 001d 14h 10m 36s.856319 22: 00y 000d 00h 00m 04s.194303<->00y 003d 04h 21m 13s.712639 23: 00y 000d 00h 00m 08s.388607<->00y 006d 08h 42m 27s.425279 24: 00y 000d 00h 00m 16s.777215<->00y 012d 17h 24m 54s.850559 25: 00y 000d 00h 00m 33s.554431<->00y 025d 10h 49m 49s.701119 Note that the smallest value is also the incrementation Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 71] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 step."; } container retransmission-timer { leaf ticks-duration { type uint8; default "20"; description "Duration of one tick in microseconds: 2^ticks-duration/10^6 = 1.048s."; } leaf ticks-numbers { type uint16 { range "1..max"; } description "Timer duration = ticks-numbers*2^ticks-duration / 10^6."; } when "derived-from-or-self(../fragmentation-mode, 'fragmentation-mode-ack-on-error') or derived-from-or-self(../fragmentation-mode, 'fragmentation-mode-ack-always') "; description "Duration in seconds of the Retransmission Timer. See the Inactivity Timer."; } leaf max-ack-requests { when "derived-from-or-self(../fragmentation-mode, 'fragmentation-mode-ack-on-error') or derived-from-or-self(../fragmentation-mode, 'fragmentation-mode-ack-always') "; type uint8 { range "1..max"; } description "The maximum number of retries for a specific SCHC ACK."; } choice mode { case no-ack; case ack-always; case ack-on-error { leaf tile-size { when "derived-from-or-self(../fragmentation-mode, 'fragmentation-mode-ack-on-error')"; type uint8; description "Size, in bits, of tiles. If not specified or set to 0, Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 72] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 tiles fill the fragment."; } leaf tile-in-all-1 { when "derived-from-or-self(../fragmentation-mode, 'fragmentation-mode-ack-on-error')"; type schc:all-1-data-type; description "Defines whether the sender and receiver expect a tile in All-1 fragments or not, or if it is left to the sender's choice."; } leaf ack-behavior { when "derived-from-or-self(../fragmentation-mode, 'fragmentation-mode-ack-on-error')"; type schc:ack-behavior-type; description "Sender behavior to acknowledge, after All-0 or All-1 or when the LPWAN allows it."; } leaf bitmap-format { when "derived-from-or-self(../fragmentation-mode, 'fragmentation-mode-ack-on-error')"; type bitmap-format-type; default "bitmap-RFC8724"; description "How the bitmaps are included in the SCHC ACK message. Defined in RFC 9441."; reference "RFC 9441 Static Context Header Compression (SCHC) Compound Acknowledgement (ACK)"; } leaf last-bitmap-compression { when "derived-from-or-self(../fragmentation-mode, 'fragmentation-mode-ack-on-error')"; type boolean; default "true"; description "When true, the ultimate bitmap in the SCHC ACK message can be compressed. Default behavior from RFC 8724. Defined in RFC 9441."; reference "RFC 8724 SCHC: Generic Framework for Static Context Header Compression and Fragmentation. RFC 9441 Static Context Header Compression (SCHC) Compound Acknowledgement (ACK)"; } Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 73] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 } description "RFC 8724 defines 3 fragmentation modes."; } reference "RFC 8724 SCHC: Generic Framework for Static Context Header Compression and Fragmentation"; } grouping management-content { description "This group contains parameters to control management procedure."; container guard-period { leaf ticks-duration { type uint8; default "20"; description "Duration of one tick in microseconds: 2^ticks-duration/10^6 = 1.048s."; } leaf ticks-numbers { type uint16 { range "0..max"; } description "Timer duration = ticks-numbers*2^ticks-duration / 10^6."; } } } // Define RuleID. RuleID is composed of a RuleID value and a // RuleID length grouping rule-id-type { leaf rule-id-value { type uint32; description "RuleID value. This value must be unique, considering its length."; } leaf rule-id-length { type uint8 { range "0..32"; } description Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 74] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 "RuleID length, in bits. The value 0 is for implicit Rules."; } description "A RuleID is composed of a value and a length, expressed in bits."; reference "RFC 8724 SCHC: Generic Framework for Static Context Header Compression and Fragmentation"; } // SCHC table for a specific device. container context { if-feature "management"; uses management-content; description "Management-related parameters that apply to the whole SCHC context rather than to a single Rule."; } container schc { list rule { key "rule-id-value rule-id-length"; uses rule-id-type; leaf rule-nature { type nature-type; mandatory true; description "Specify the Rule's nature."; } choice nature { case fragmentation { if-feature "fragmentation"; uses fragmentation-content; } case compression { status deprecated; if-feature "compression"; uses compression-content { status deprecated; } } case compression-universal { if-feature "compression or management"; uses compression-content-universal; } description Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 75] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 "A Rule is for compression, no-compression, fragmentation, or management."; } description "Set of compression, no-compression, or fragmentation Rules identified by their rule-id."; } description "A SCHC set of Rules is composed of a list of Rules used for compression, no-compression, fragmentation, or management."; reference "RFC 8724 SCHC: Generic Framework for Static Context Header Compression and Fragmentation"; } rpc duplicate-rule { input { container from { uses schc:rule-id-type; description "Source Rule ID"; } container to { uses schc:rule-id-type; description "Destination Rule ID"; } leaf ipatch-sequence { type binary; description "CBOR sequence for an CORECONF iPatch used to modify the newly created Rule. This parameter is optional, and set by default to 0xF6 (CBOR null)"; } } output { leaf status { type enumeration { enum success-with-validation { value 0; } enum success-not-validated { value 1; } enum to-rule-already-exists { Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 76] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 value -1; } enum from-rule-not-found { value -2; } enum invalid-ipatch { value -3; } } description "Return the status of the RPC. TO BE DEFINED MORE PRECISELY"; } } description "This RPC duplicate a rule, from a existing one given in leaf 'from' to a new non existing rule defined by 'to'. The content of the new rule may be updated with a iPatch, where the CORECONF payload contained in 'ipatch-sequence'."; } } Figure 13: Working Copy of the ietf-schc YANG Module Acknowledgments This document reuses text and structure from RFC 9363. The authors thank the contributors and reviewers of that document. This work was supported by the Sweden's Innovation Agency VINNOVA within the EUREKA CELTIC-NEXT project CYPRESS. This work has been supported by the SCHC Chair from IMT Atlantique and Afnic. The authors also thank Claude (Anthropic) for rewriting parts of this document in more correct English and for checking its consistency. Authors' Addresses Laurent Toutain Institut MINES TELECOM; IMT Atlantique 2 rue de la Chataigneraie CS 17607 35576 Cesson-Sevigne Cedex France Email: Laurent.Toutain@imt-atlantique.fr Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 77] Internet-Draft Toward SCHC YANG Model bis September 2026 Marco Tiloca RISE AB Isafjordsgatan 22 SE-16440 Kista Sweden Email: marco.tiloca@ri.se Ana Minaburo Consultant Email: ana@minaburo.com Samar Sirohi Institut MINES TELECOM; IMT Atlantique 2 rue de la Chataigneraie CS 17607 35576 Cesson-Sevigne Cedex France Email: Samar.Sirohi@imt-atlantique.fr Toutain, et al. Expires 27 March 2027 [Page 78]