Technical Summary
The Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF) defined in this document
provides mechanisms to install, manipulate, and delete the
configuration of network devices. It uses an Extensible Markup
Language (XML)-based data encoding for the configuration data as well
as the protocol messages. The NETCONF protocol operations are
realized as Remote Procedure Calls (RPC).
This revision of the document clarifies some text and
fixes some minor bugs (including reported rfc4741 errata)
as found from implementatition experience of rfc4741.
Working Group Summary
The working group went over several versions of the
document. The comments and reviews helped improve the
document a lot and brought to consensus on the
6th revision of the document.
Document Quality
There are several implementations of this protocol, and in fact
the rfc4741bis revision is based on implementation
experience.
Personnel
Bert Wijnen is the Document Shepherd for this document? Dan
Romascanu is the Responsible Area Director.