Subject: [Netconf] Short Summary of the NETCONF Session at IETF 86

From: "Ersue, Mehmet (NSN - DE/Munich)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:58:23 +0000

Hi Benoit,

below is a summary and action items from the NETCONF WG session on March 11, 2013 in Orlando, FL, USA.

- We had approx. 65 participants in the 1.5 hour NETCONF session,
- We reviewed the status of the WG,
- We went through the chartered WG item and had a good discussion also on non-chartered documents.

Status of the documents (http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/86/slides/slides-86-netconf-5.ppt):
RFC5539bis (Netconf over TLS) has been updated addressing the issues raised so far and is currently in WGLC.

Main chartered topic was rfc5539bis (Netconf over TLS). Basically the WG has consensus, but the room wanted to add the Call Home mechanism. This must be confirmed on the WG list. Authors will add text for this and submit a new version.

There was also support from the room to resurrect the Call Home mechanism for the mandatory transport binding SSH. Kent Watsen volunteered to resurrect his draft on Reverse SSH and there were volunteers to review and implement.

Question: Would it be OK to have Call Home for the optional TLS transport while not having it for the mandatory SSH transport. Our AD (Benoit) to check this with IESG.

Also several other presentations on "NETCONF API", Operational State retrieval, Conditional Enablement, and Implementation
Experience have been held and discussed. We need revisions for at least the Operational State draft so we can ask the WG to review and comment.

We also asked for volunteers to work on the supporting documentation for RFC advancement. Volunteers to send email to chairs.

NetConf and NetMod chairs have planned to meet with I2RS chairs later in the week.

Bert and Mehmet