The IESG has approved the following document: - 'RESTCONF Protocol' (draft-ietf-netconf-restconf-18.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Network Configuration Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Benoit Claise and Joel Jaeggli. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-netconf-restconf/ 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
