--- /dev/null
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2019 PANTHEON.tech, s.r.o. and others. All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
+ * terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 which accompanies this distribution,
+ * and is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
+ */
+package org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.binding;
+
+import com.google.common.annotations.Beta;
+import org.eclipse.jdt.annotation.NonNull;
+
+/**
+ * Marker interface for YANG-defined instance {@code notification}s. A concrete InstanceNotification and its
+ * implementations may choose to also extend/implement the {@link EventInstantAware} interface. In case they do,
+ * {@link EventInstantAware#eventInstant()} returns the time when this notification was generated.
+ *
+ * @param <N> Concrete notification type
+ * @param <T> Parent data tree instance type
+ */
+@Beta
+public interface InstanceNotification<N extends InstanceNotification<N, T>, T extends DataObject>
+ extends BaseNotification {
+
+ @Override
+ @NonNull Class<N> implementedInterface();
+}