Kent Watsen

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Kent Watsen

Industry Expert with 25 years of Commercial Development Experience
  • 5 years at Watsen Networks
  • 15 years at Juniper Networks (Principal/Distinguished Engineer).
  • 10 years with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
  • 2 years at NetScreen Technologies (Juniper acquired NetScreen).
  • 2 years at OneSecure (NetScreen acquired OneSecure).
Hands-on Architect on 4 Successful Commercial NMS/EMS Products
  • OneSecure's Intrusion, Detection, and Prevention (IDP) Manager
  • NetScreen's Network and Security Manager (NSM)
  • Juniper's JUNOS Space
  • Juniper's Cloud Service Orchestration (CSO) Platform
  • Watsen Network's Secure Zero Touch Provisioning Daemon
Specialties and Skills
  • Classical and Quantum Network Management and Security
  • Secure Zero Touch Provisioning, Cryptography
  • YANG, NETCONF, RESTCONF, SSH, TLS, QUIC, HTTP, Syslog
  • X.509, CMS, ASN.1, XSD, XML, JSON, Markdown
  • Python, C/C++, UNIX Shell Scripting
  • Bottle, Flask, Django, HTML, CSS, JavaScript
  • Ansible, Pip, Git, Subversion, Pytest, Docker
  • Computer Graphics (2D, 3D, and 4D)

Roles

Role Group Email
Chair IAB workshop on the Next Era of Network Management Operations (nemopsws) kent+ietf@watsen.net
Chair Network Configuration (netconf) kent+ietf@watsen.net
Chair Network Modeling (netmod) kent+ietf@watsen.net
Reviewer (See reviews) YANG Doctors (yangdoctors) kent+ietf@watsen.net

External Resources

Name Value
Additional Web Page https://watsen.net

RFCs (21)

RFC Date Title Cited by
RFC 7895 Jun 2016 YANG Module Library 8 RFCs
RFC 8040 Jan 2017 RESTCONF Protocol 157 RFCs
RFC 8071 Feb 2017 NETCONF Call Home and RESTCONF Call Home 6 RFCs
RFC 8072 Feb 2017 YANG Patch Media Type 3 RFCs
RFC 8342 Mar 2018 Network Management Datastore Architecture (NMDA) 94 RFCs
RFC 8366 May 2018 A Voucher Artifact for Bootstrapping Protocols 6 RFCs
RFC 8525 Mar 2019 YANG Library 14 RFCs
RFC 8526 Mar 2019 NETCONF Extensions to Support the Network Management Datastore Architecture 2 RFCs
RFC 8527 Mar 2019 RESTCONF Extensions to Support the Network Management Datastore Architecture 2 RFCs
RFC 8572 Apr 2019 Secure Zero Touch Provisioning (SZTP) 10 RFCs
RFC 8791 Jun 2020 YANG Data Structure Extensions 11 RFCs
RFC 8792 Jun 2020 Handling Long Lines in Content of Internet-Drafts and RFCs 46 RFCs
RFC 8995 May 2021 Bootstrapping Remote Secure Key Infrastructure (BRSKI) 21 RFCs
RFC 9640 Oct 2024 YANG Data Types and Groupings for Cryptography 11 RFCs
RFC 9641 Oct 2024 A YANG Data Model for a Truststore 8 RFCs
RFC 9642 Oct 2024 A YANG Data Model for a Keystore 9 RFCs
RFC 9643 Oct 2024 YANG Groupings for TCP Clients and TCP Servers 6 RFCs
RFC 9644 Oct 2024 YANG Groupings for SSH Clients and SSH Servers 5 RFCs
RFC 9645 Oct 2024 YANG Groupings for TLS Clients and TLS Servers 11 RFCs
RFC 9646 Oct 2024 Conveying a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) in a Secure Zero-Touch Provisioning (SZTP) Bootstrapping Request 1 RFC
RFC 9984 Jun 2026 YANG Groupings for UDP Clients and UDP Servers

Active Internet-Drafts (12)

Expired Internet-Drafts (13)

(Excluding replaced Internet-Drafts.)

Internet-Draft Activity