The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Using the NETCONF Protocol over Transport Layer Security (TLS) with Mutual X.509 Authentication' (draft-ietf-netconf-rfc5539bis-10.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: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-netconf-rfc5539bis/ Technical Summary 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 with mutual X.509 authentication to secure the exchange of NETCONF messages. This revision of RFC 5539 documents the new message framing used by NETCONF 1.1 and it obsoletes RFC 5539. Working Group Summary Since the start of the work end of 2012, the focus has been changed to remove call home functionality and to split the server configuration data model into another draft. There were no controversial or difficult decisions. Document Quality This document revises RFC 5539 by defining the chunked framing mechanism used if both peers adverstise the :base:1.1 capability. As such all implementations of NETCONF 1.1 that want to use TLS with mutual X.509 authentication have to use this new framing format. The document is clear and well written, and it has been extensively reviewed. There are implementations with different code base of different draft versions available. Personnel The document shepherd is Mehmet Ersue. The responsible AD is Benoit Claise. The IANA Expert(s) for the registries in this document are Joe Touch; Eliot Lear, Allison Mankin, Markku Kojo, Kumiko Ono, Martin Stiemerling, Lars Eggert, Alexey Melnikov, Wes Eddy, and Alexander Zimmermann
