RESTCONF

• RESTCONF (standardized in 2017) is an HTTP-based protocol that builds on NETCONF
  • It is an IETF draft that describes how to map a YANG specification to a RESTful interface
• Uses HTTP verbs over a REST API
  • aka, is HTTP is the transport
• RESTCONF is not intended to replace NETCONF, but is simpler to use
• XML or JSON encoding is used

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OSI or TCP/IP Layer

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