NETCONF WG

For current information, please see the new NETCONF Wiki.

NETCONF (for network configuration) is an IETF Working Group chartered to produce a protocol for network configuration. These pages used to be a user-friendly entry point to the activities of the group. We'll keep them around as a historical archive, but as said above, for current information, see the NETCONF Wiki.

Old News

Documents

Working Group Drafts

Note: The authoritative source for pointers to WG documents is the official IETF NETCONF page. Please check there when in doubt that the list here is up to date. In addition, the IETF Tools team kindly provides an automatically updated overview page with status information on the WG's drafts.

Active WG Documents

Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF): R. Enns, et al., February 2010 (work in progress)
Using the NETCONF Configuration Protocol over Secure Shell (SSH): M. Wasserman, T. Goddard, December 2009 (work in progress)
YANG Module for NETCONF Monitoring: M. Scott, M. Bjorklund, February 2010 (work in progress)
With-defaults capability for NETCONF: A. Bierman, B. Lengyel, October 2009 (work in progress)

Approved Documents

RFC 4741: NETCONF Configuration Protocol: R. Enns, December 2006
RFC 4742: Using the NETCONF Configuration Protocol over Secure Shell (SSH): M. Wasserman, T. Goddard, December 2006
RFC 4743: Using NETCONF over the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP): T. Goddard, December 2006
RFC 4744: Using the NETCONF Protocol over Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol (BEEP): E. Lear, K. Crozier, December 2006
RFC 5277: NETCONF Event Notifications: S. Chisholm, H. Trevino, July 2008
RFC 5539: NETCONF over Transport Layer Security (TLS): M. Badra, May 2009
RFC 5717: Partial Lock Remote Procedure Call (RPC) for NETCONF: B. Lengyel, M. Bjorklund, December 2009

`netmod` WG Documents

YANG - A data modeling language for NETCONF: M. Bjorklund, January 2010 (work in progress)
Mapping YANG to Document Schema Definition Languages and Validating NETCONF Content: L. Lhotka, et al., October 2009 (work in progress)
Common YANG Data Types: J. Schoenwaelder, February 2010 (work in progress)
Guidelines for Authors and Reviewers of YANG Data Model Documents: A. Bierman, January 2010 (work in progress)
An NETCONF- and NETMOD-based Architecture for Network Management: P. Shafer, May 2009 (work in progress)

Individual Submissions

RFC 5381: Experience of Implementing NETCONF over SOAP: T. Iijima, Y. Atarashi, H. Kimura, M. Kitani, H. Okita, October 2008
Extending YANG with Language Abstractions: B. Linowski, M. Ersue, October 2009 (work in progress)
Robust Configuration Management within NETCONF: R. Cole, et al., June 2009 (work in progress)
An Evaluation Framework for Data Modeling Languages in Network Management Domain: H. Xu, D. Xiao, November 2009 (work in progress)
Conversion of MIB to XSD for NETCONF: X. Wu, D. Xiao, Y. Chang, September 2009 (work in progress)
Definitions of Managed Objects for lock via network management protocols: T. Meng, W. Fan, October 2009 (work in progress)
Configuration Data Model for IPFIX and PSAMP: G. Muenz, et al., October 2009 (work in progress)

Mailing Lists

General Discussion: netconf@ietf.org
To Subscribe: netconf-request@ietf.org?body=subscribe

Archive: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/netconf/current/maillist.html
Old Archive: http://ops.ietf.org/lists/netconf/

"Netconf Goes On" (NGO) mailing list: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ngo (archive)

Implementations

YencaP, a Netconf agent for Linux implemented in Python, distributed under LGPL as part of the EnSuite (Extended Netconf Suite) collection. http://libresource.inria.fr/projects/ensuite
YENCA, a Netconf agent for Linux implemented in C, available under GPL on SourceForge
Tail-f Systems has a Netconf agent as well as command line and web interfaces, SNMP agent, and integrated configuration store. Tail-f also has a Netconf manager library that can be integrated with Element Management Systems.
embeddedMIND™ from Silicon&Software Systems (S3) now has an extensible Netconf agent with integrated configuration store and CLI, SNMP and Web interfaces.
XML Based Device Management by Wipro, including an agent written in C and a manager in Java
An implementation written in C from NEC Europe Ltd in Germany
Another implementation written in C by Postech in Korea
XMS (eXtensible Management System), written in C, by 6WIND
Applied Informatics' C++-based NetConf implementation based on the POCO framework (howtos).
Netopeer. BSD-licensed and C-based implementation of the NETCONF protocol, used for remote configuration of liberouter devices.
ncclient: Python library for NETCONF clients. Documentation (PDF). There's a Google Group which should also be used for reporting problems.

Presentations etc.

NANOG30 (February 2004): NETCONF Protocol Update by Eliot Lear (slides and video recording).
RIPE47 (January 2004): EOF presentation on NETCONF by Simon Leinen.
NANOG28 (June 2003): Panel on XML Router Configs - Progress and Predictions
NANOG28 (June 2003) BOF on XML-based Network Management Tools

Minutes

NETCONF WG at IETF67, San Diego, CA, USA, November 6, 2006 (in preparation)
Interim meeting in Montréal, Canada, 14/15 July 2006.
NETCONF WG at IETF66, Montréal, Canada, July 14, 2006
NETCONF WG at IETF65, Dallas, TX, USA, March 20, 2006
NETCONF WG at IETF63, Paris, France, August 4, 2005
NETCONF WG at IETF62, Minneapolis, MN, USA, March 8, 2005
NETCONF WG at IETF61, Washington, DC, USA, November 11, 2004
NETCONF WG at IETF60, San Diego, CA, USA, August 5, 2004
NETCONF WG at IETF59, Seoul, Korea, February 29-March 4, 2004
NETCONF WG at IETF58, Minneapolis, MN, USA, November 9-14, 2003
NETCONF WG at IETF57, Vienna, Austria, July 13-18, 2003
NETCONF BOF at IETF56, San Francisco, CA, USA, March 16-21, 2003

20100204 (UTC+0200) Simon Leinen <simon.leinen@switch.ch>