David,

> On Mar 26, 2017, at 5:34 PM, Waltermire, David A. (Fed) 
> <david.walterm...@nist.gov> wrote:
> 
> 
> The US Government has been working within the IETF SACM work group to 
> standardize the collection of endpoint configuration and other posture 
> information from enterprise endpoints. Collecting this information is 
> critical to support automation of common network security tasks, including 
> asset, software, vulnerability, and configuration management. Thus far, our 
> efforts have focused primarily on standards to collect information in support 
> of asset, software and vulnerability management use cases, and has worked 
> with other IETF members to determine what data would need to be to be 
> collected, and how that data would be securely communicated across the 
> network. Through such exchanges an organization can know what client 
> endpoints are connected to their network, and if they are vulnerable to 
> attack.
> 
> Given the proliferation of attacks against network infrastructure devices, it 
> is clear that the next step in our enterprise security automation effort must 
> be to enable standardized reporting of similar information from network 
> infrastructure devices. With the growing number of Yang models and increased 
> adoption of NETCONF, RESTCONF, and related protocol work, the time is right 
> to work out how these standards can be used to measure the health of network 
> devices. This information will, as in our efforts in SACM for client devices, 
> support asset, software, vulnerability, and configuration management use 
> cases. Standards-based reporting of this information from network 
> infrastructure devices will help network defenders protect against known 
> attacks, and provide the necessary knowledge to detect and mitigate future 
> attacks. 
> 
> We would like to start a discussion about how to leverage the existing IETF 
> network management protocols to best address security automation for network 
> infrastructure devices. We would like your ideas on how to best pursue this 
> work, and your insights into network infrastructure security problems that 
> will impact our networks in the future. We are holding a side meeting at IETF 
> 98 on Wednesday, March 29th at 6:30pm CDT to start a discussion about how to 
> move forward. We will be meeting in Vevey 4 at the IETF meeting venue.

Maybe this was discussed in the BoF …

The best way to have a discussion would be to present the proposal in the form 
of a draft in the NETCONF WG.

> 
> Here is a summary of the meeting details:
> 
> PANIC (Posture Assessment through Network Information Collection) Bar BoF
> Wednesday, March 29th, 2017 @ 6:30pm CDT
> Swissotel Conference Center - Vevey 4
> 
> We look forward to working with you, and hope to see you in Chicago at the 
> PANIC Bar BoF.
> 
> Regards,
> Dave
> 
> David Waltermire
> Information Technology Laboratory | Computer Security Division
> National Institute of Standards and Technology
> 
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