Extensible Provisioning Protocol
RFC 5730, “Extensible Provisioning Protocol”, is an Internet Standard document published in August 2009 by S. Hollenbeck. It obsoletes RFC 4930. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
This document describes an application-layer client-server protocol for the provisioning and management of objects stored in a shared central repository. Specified in XML, the protocol defines generic object management operations and an extensible framework that maps protocol operations to objects. This document includes a protocol specification, an object mapping template, and an XML media type registration. This document obsoletes RFC 4930. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
What “Internet Standard” means
A mature, widely-implemented specification that has completed the full IETF standards process — the highest maturity level on the standards track.
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- RFC 5729 Clarifications on the Routing of Diameter Requests Based on the Username and the Realm
- RFC 5731 Extensible Provisioning Protocol Domain Name Mapping
- RFC 5732 Extensible Provisioning Protocol Host Mapping
- RFC 5733 Extensible Provisioning Protocol Contact Mapping
- RFC 5734 Extensible Provisioning Protocol Transport over TCP
- RFC 5722 Handling of Overlapping IPv6 Fragments
- RFC 5740 NACK-Oriented Reliable Multicast Transport Protocol
- RFC 5741 RFC Streams, Headers, and Boilerplates