RFC 8040
E39003
RFC 8040 is an IETF standard that defines the RESTCONF protocol, a RESTful interface for accessing and managing data defined with YANG in network configuration and management systems.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| RFC 8040 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T300593 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: RFC 8040 Context triple: [RESTCONF, standardizedIn, RFC 8040]
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A.
RFC 6557
RFC 6557 is an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) document that defines procedures and guidelines for the maintenance and distribution of the IANA time zone database.
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B.
RFC 3417
RFC 3417 is an Internet standard that specifies the transport mappings for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), defining how SNMP messages are carried over various network protocols such as UDP.
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C.
RFC 8017
RFC 8017 is the Internet standard that specifies the RSA Cryptography Standard (PKCS #1), defining algorithms and formats for RSA encryption and digital signatures.
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D.
RFC 9112
RFC 9112 is the IETF specification that standardizes the semantics and behavior of HTTP/1.1.
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E.
RFC 3414
RFC 3414 is an Internet standard that specifies the User-based Security Model (USM) for securing SNMPv3 communications, including authentication and privacy mechanisms.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: RFC 8040 Target entity description: RFC 8040 is an IETF standard that defines the RESTCONF protocol, a RESTful interface for accessing and managing data defined with YANG in network configuration and management systems.
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A.
RFC 6557
RFC 6557 is an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) document that defines procedures and guidelines for the maintenance and distribution of the IANA time zone database.
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B.
RFC 3417
RFC 3417 is an Internet standard that specifies the transport mappings for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), defining how SNMP messages are carried over various network protocols such as UDP.
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C.
RFC 8017
RFC 8017 is the Internet standard that specifies the RSA Cryptography Standard (PKCS #1), defining algorithms and formats for RSA encryption and digital signatures.
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D.
RFC 9112
RFC 9112 is the IETF specification that standardizes the semantics and behavior of HTTP/1.1.
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E.
RFC 3414
RFC 3414 is an Internet standard that specifies the User-based Security Model (USM) for securing SNMPv3 communications, including authentication and privacy mechanisms.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
IETF Request for Comments
ⓘ
technical standard ⓘ |
| applicationDomain |
network configuration
ⓘ
network management ⓘ |
| area | Operations and Management ⓘ |
| category | Standards Track ⓘ |
| dataEncoding |
JSON
ⓘ
XML ⓘ |
| defines |
RESTCONF base protocol operations
ⓘ
linked to:
RESTCONF
RESTCONF capability discovery ⓘ RESTCONF datastore access ⓘ RESTCONF encoding rules ⓘ RESTCONF error handling ⓘ RESTCONF notification mechanisms ⓘ RESTCONF operations on YANG-defined data ⓘ RESTCONF resource structure ⓘ RESTCONF security considerations ⓘ |
| definesProtocol | RESTCONF ⓘ |
| intendedUse |
management of network devices
ⓘ
programmatic access to YANG-modeled data ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| obsoletes | draft-ietf-netconf-restconf ⓘ |
| protocolStyle | RESTful ⓘ |
| protocolType | application-layer protocol ⓘ |
| publicationStatus | Internet Standard ⓘ |
| publishedBy |
IETF
ⓘ
linked to:
Internet Engineering Task Force
Internet Engineering Task Force ⓘ |
| publisher | RFC Editor ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
NETCONF
ⓘ
RFC 6241 ⓘ YANG data modeling language ⓘ
linked to:
YANG
|
| rfcNumber | 8040 ⓘ |
| series | Request for Comments ⓘ |
| standardizes |
REST interface for YANG-based configuration data
ⓘ
REST interface for YANG-based operational state data ⓘ |
| status | active ⓘ |
| supportsOperation |
DELETE
ⓘ
GET ⓘ PATCH ⓘ POST ⓘ PUT ⓘ |
| title |
RESTCONF Protocol
ⓘ
linked to:
RESTCONF
|
| usesDataModelingLanguage | YANG ⓘ |
| usesTransportProtocol |
HTTP
ⓘ
HTTPS ⓘ |
| workingGroup |
NETCONF Working Group
ⓘ
linked to:
IETF NETCONF Working Group
|
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: RFC 8040 Description of subject: RFC 8040 is an IETF standard that defines the RESTCONF protocol, a RESTful interface for accessing and managing data defined with YANG in network configuration and management systems.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.