@techreport{netana-opsawg-telemetry-over-quic-00, number = {draft-netana-opsawg-telemetry-over-quic-00}, type = {Internet-Draft}, institution = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, note = {Work in Progress}, url = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-netana-opsawg-telemetry-over-quic/00/}, author = {BenoƮt Claise and Thomas Graf and Paolo Lucente and Holger Keller and Alan DeKok}, title = {{QUIC Transport for Network Telemetry}}, pagetotal = 29, year = 2026, month = jul, day = 3, abstract = {This document describes the use of the QUIC transport protocol as a common transport substrate for operational Network Telemetry protocols that currently rely on UDP. Specifically, it discusses carrying protocols such as IPFIX, Syslog, YANG-Push UDP-Notif, and RADIUS Accounting over QUIC connections. For telemetry protocols whose data plane is inherently loss-tolerant (where a missing sample is preferable to a delayed retransmission) this document recommends use of the Unreliable Datagram Extension to QUIC (DATAGRAM frames). A primary motivation for this work is the unification of transport- layer security across heterogeneous telemetry protocols. Protocols that currently have no mandatory transport security (syslog over UDP) or optional-only security (IPFIX over UDP with DTLS) or weak security (RADIUS with MD5 obfuscation) would all benefit from the mandatory TLS 1.3 mutual authentication that QUIC provides. This document specifically addresses the operational advantages of managing a single PKI certificate lifecycle per Network Node to authenticate all telemetry streams. This document is intended as a framework and applicability statement. Per-protocol bindings that require normative specification are expected to be chartered in their respective IETF working groups.}, }