The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Voucher Profile for Bootstrapping Protocols' (draft-ietf-anima-voucher-07.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Autonomic Networking Integrated Model and Approach Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Warren Kumari, Benoit Claise and Terry Manderson. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-anima-voucher/ Technical Summary This document defines a strategy to securely assign a pledge to an owner, using an artifact signed, directly or indirectly, by the pledge's manufacturer. This artifact is known as a "voucher". This document only defines the voucher artifact, leaving it to other documents to describe specialized protocols for accessing it. Working Group Summary This document was called draft-kwatsen-anima-voucher prior to its adoption. There was unanimous support for it in favor of adoption and none against), so this document was adopted in January, 2017, as a accompanying document along with another ANIMA WG document draft-ietf-anima-bootstrapping-keyinfra, which have been adopted in Auguest 2015. It is worthy to clarifying that this document is actually independent from draft-ietf-anima-bootstrapping-keyinfra. There was interest in this work posts since its adoption. There was never any opposition for this work. This document went through a relevant shorter document development period (3 months for individual document period, 8 month for WG document period). It has been reviewed well. Document Quality This document went through multiple reviews by multiple WGs (ANIMA, 6tisch, NETCONF) participants. And this document went through a cross-group WGLC, which did receive comments to help improving the document. So far, there is no existing implementations. Personnel Sheng Jiang is the document shepherd. Terry Manderson is the responsible AD. IANA Note IANA is asked to registers a URIs in the IETF XML registry: URI: urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-voucher IANA is requested to registers a YANG module in the YANG Module Names registry: ietf-voucher. All the necessary information is in the IANA considerations document. It is clear enough that the IANA will be able to implement it.