Technical Summary
This draft specifies an HTTP-based protocol that provides a programmatic
interface for accessing data defined in YANG, using the datastores defined in
NETCONF. RESTCONF is a major protocol for the HTTP-based management
of devices. It is already well-accepted and in used in diverse industry projects.
Working Group Summary
NETCONF WG discussed the document (first as draft-bierman-netconf-restconf)
since September 2013 and issued 2 WG last calls each for 3 weeks. Diverse related
WGs including Core, 6tisch, 6lo, i2rs, netmod have been invited to review.
There was detailed discussion on RESTCONF issues and some of the discussion
points led to controversy. So far all comments and issues have been addressed
and closed on Netconf Github.
Document Quality
This document was extensively reviewed and comments were provided both
in IETF meetings and on the mailing list.
The protocol RESTCONF has been implemented by diverse WG members and
vendors which brought in their comments and suggestions for improvement.
Personnel
The document shepherd is Mehmet Ersue.
The responsible AD is Benoit Claise.
If the document requires IANA
experts(s), insert 'The IANA Expert(s) for the registries
in this document:
http://www.iana.org/assignments/link-relations/link-relations.xhtml#link-relations-1
Mark Nottingham, Julian Reschke, Jan Algermissen
http://www.iana.org/assignments/xml-registry/xml-registry.xhtml
Tim Bray, Martin Thomson