Technical Summary
The Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF) provides mechanisms to
install, manipulate, and delete the configuration of network devices.
This document describes how to use the Transport Layer Security (TLS)
protocol with mutual X.509 authentication to secure the exchange of
NETCONF messages. This revision of RFC 5539 documents the new
message framing used by NETCONF 1.1 and it obsoletes RFC 5539.
Working Group Summary
Since the start of the work end of 2012, the focus has been changed
to remove call home functionality and to split the server configuration
data model into another draft. There were no controversial or difficult
decisions.
Document Quality
This document revises RFC 5539 by defining the chunked framing
mechanism used if both peers adverstise the :base:1.1 capability.
As such all implementations of NETCONF 1.1 that want to use TLS
with mutual X.509 authentication have to use this new framing
format. The document is clear and well written, and it has been
extensively reviewed. There are implementations with different
code base of different draft versions available.
Personnel
The document shepherd is Mehmet Ersue. The responsible AD
is Benoit Claise. The IANA Expert(s) for the registries in this document
are Joe Touch; Eliot Lear, Allison Mankin, Markku Kojo, Kumiko Ono,
Martin Stiemerling, Lars Eggert, Alexey Melnikov, Wes Eddy, and
Alexander Zimmermann