@techreport{boucadair-netconf-req-00, number = {draft-boucadair-netconf-req-00}, type = {Internet-Draft}, institution = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, note = {Work in Progress}, url = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-boucadair-netconf-req-00}, author = {Mohamed Boucadair}, title = {{Requirements for Efficient and Automated Configuration Management}}, pagetotal = 18, year = 2004, month = jul, day = 9, abstract = {Given the ever-increasing importance of configuration tasks for the provisioning of a wide range of IP resources, networks, and services in today's Internet, this draft aims at listing the basic requirements that should drive the specification of a protocol to convey configuration information towards network devices. This memo doesn't aim at listing candidate protocols to convey such information, nor at choosing one of these. This draft basically describes a whole set of issues a service provider has to deal with, hence a list of requirements to better address such issues.}, }