"NETCONF over Transport Layer Security (TLS)", Mohamad Badra, Ibrahim Hajjeh, 22-Oct-08. ( bytes)

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 to secure NETCONF exchanges.

"Partial Lock RPC for NETCONF", Balazs Lengyel, Martin Bjorklund, 31-Oct-08. ( bytes)

The NETCONF protocol defines the lock and unlock RPCs, used to lock entire configuration datastores. In some situations, a way to lock only parts of a configuration datastore is required. This document defines a capability-based extension to the NETCONF protocol for locking portions of a configuration datastore.

"NETCONF Monitoring Schema", Mark Scott, Sharon Chisholm, Martin Bjorklund, 3-Nov-08. ( bytes)

This document defines NETCONF content via XML Schema to be used to monitor the NETCONF protocol. The monitoring data model includes information about NETCONF sessions, locks, and subscriptions and is intended to facilitate management of a NETCONF server. In addition this monitoring data provides clients with standardized content to describe supported schema. Today, NETCONF capabilities exchange is the only standardized method a client can use to discover the functionality supported by a NETCONF server. This works well for static protocol capabilities but is not well suited for capabilities which could change during a session. Considerations such as different schema formats, feature optionality and access controls can all impact the applicability and level of detail the NETCONF server sends to a client during session setup. Through updated monitoring data NETCONF clients can adjust their capabilities throughout a session. Specifically the details returned can be used by a client to determine whether retrieval of new schema information is required and includes the information required to facilitate the retrieval. A new RPC (get-schema) is also defined to support explicit schema retrieval via NETCONF.

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