http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6241.txt
RFC 6241: Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF), R. Enns, M. Bjorklund, J. Schoenwaelder, A. Bierman2011-06-01T23:00:00-00:00The Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF) defined in this document provides mechanisms to install, manipulate, and delete the configuration of network devices. It uses an Extensible Markup Language (XML)-based data encoding for the configuration data as well as the protocol messages. The NETCONF protocol operations are realized as remote procedure calls (RPCs). This document obsoletes RFC 4741. [STANDARDS-TRACK]