End-to-end YANG-based configuration management

Networked resources are of increasing complexity and have to be configured properly to guarantee their operation. Within the IETF, current efforts are focused on both a protocol and a data model definition language for configuration management. The NETCONF protocol describes the communication between devices to be configured and configuration applications. NETCONF does not describe how configuration data is represented. This is addressed by the YANG data modeling language, the emerging proposal of the netmod standard working group.