I-D Action: draft-dikshit-netconf-yang-push-causal-ordering-00.txt

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   Title:   Comparable Sequence Numbers Across Publishers in YANG Datastore Telemetry
   Author:  Saumya Dikshit
   Name:    draft-dikshit-netconf-yang-push-causal-ordering-00.txt
   Pages:   6
   Dates:   2026-08-29

Abstract:

   YANG Datastore Telemetry, YANG-Push version 2
   [I-D.ietf-netconf-yang-push-2], assigns each publisher a
   monotonically increasing sequence number so a receiver can detect
   loss and reordering. The current design leaves two questions
   unanswered: what happens when the counter wraps, and how a
   receiver aggregating records from more than one publisher is to
   compare sequence numbers that were never defined to be comparable
   across publishers in the first place. Both questions have already
   been studied, and largely settled, in the distributed systems
   literature under the heading of logical and hybrid logical clocks,
   and in deployed streaming systems under the heading of offset and
   epoch numbering. This document evaluates three existing causal-
   ordering primitives against YANG-Push's specific constraints and
   proposes adopting a Hybrid Logical Clock so that the wraparound and
   cross-publisher comparison problems are removed by construction
   rather than patched with a wider counter.

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