Kent Watsen
Industry Expert with 25 years of Commercial Development Experience.
- 4 years with Aliro Quantum.
- 15 years with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
- 15 years at Juniper Networks (Principal/Distinguished Engineer).
- 2 years at NetScreen Technologies (Juniper acquired NetScreen).
- 2 years at OneSecure (NetScreen acquired OneSecure).
Hands-on Architect on 4 Successful Commercial NMS/EMS Products.
- OneSecure's Intrusion, Detection, and Prevention (IDP) Manager
- NetScreen's Network and Security Manager (NSM)
- Juniper's JUNOS Space
- Juniper's Cloud Service Orchestration (CSO) Platform
Specialties and Skills
- Network Management, Network Security
- Secure Zero Touch Provisioning, Cryptography
- YANG, NETCONF, RESTCONF, SSH, TLS, HTTP, Syslog
- X.509, CMS, ASN.1, XSD, XML, JSON, Markdown
- Python, C/C++, UNIX Shell Scripting
- Bottle, Flask, HTML, CSS, JavaScript
- Ansible, Pip, Git, Subversion, Pytest, Docker
- Computer Graphics (both 2D and 3D)
Author of Many IETF RFC (Internet Standard) Specifications.
- RFC 7895: YANG Module Library
- RFC 8040: RESTCONF Protocol
- RFC 8071: NETCONF Call Home and RESTCONF Call Home
- RFC 8072: YANG Patch Media Type
- RFC 8342: Network Management Datastore Architecture (NMDA)
- RFC 8366: A Voucher Artifact for Bootstrapping Protocols
- RFC 8525: YANG Library
- RFC 8526: NETCONF Extensions to Support the Network Management Datastore Architecture
- RFC 8527: RESTCONF Extensions to Support the Network Management Datastore Architecture
- RFC 8572: Secure Zero Touch Provisioning (SZTP)
- RFC 8791: YANG Data Structure Extensions
- RFC 8792: Handling Long Lines in Artwork in Internet-Drafts and RFCs
- RFC 9640: YANG Data Types and Groupings for Cryptography
- RFC 9641: YANG Data Model for a Truststore
- RFC 9642: YANG Data Model for a Keystore
- RFC 9643: YANG Groupings for TCP Clients and TCP Servers
- RFC 9644: YANG Groupings for SSH Clients and SSH Servers
- RFC 9645: YANG Groupings for TLS Clients and TLS Servers
- RFC 9646: Conveying a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) in a Secure Zero-Touch Provisioning (SZTP) Bootstrapping Request
- RFC ????: YANG Groupings for HTTP Clients and HTTP Servers
- RFC ????: NETCONF Client and Server Models
- RFC ????: RESTCONF Client and Server Models
- RFC ????: UDP Client and Server Models
- RFC ????: An HTTPS-based Transport for Configured Subscriptions
- RFC ????: List Pagination for YANG-driven Protocols
- RFC ????: NETCONF Extensions to Support List Pagination
- RFC ????: RESTCONF Extensions to Support List Pagination
Awarded Numerous Software Patents.
- US 16/234,379: Secure Remote Bootstrapping of Network Device
- US 10,027,535: Systems and Methods for Managing Device Configurations at Various Levels of Abstraction
- US 9,600,302: Using Public Key Infrastructure for Automatic Device Configuration
- US 9,253,034: An Approach to Rapidly Deploy and Manage Large Number of Devices with Similar Network Configuration
- US 8,954,732: Authenticating Third-Party Programs for Platforms
- US 8,798,071: Selective Routing to Geographically Distributed Network Centers for Purposes of Power Control and Environmental Impact
- US 8,769,129: Server Initiated Secure Network Connection
- US 8,429,403: Systems and Methods for Provisioning Network Devices
- US 8,259,586: Routing Network Packets based on Electrical Power Procurement Arrangements
- US 8,156,213; Merging Network Device Configuration Schemas
- US 8,078,707: Hierarchical Domains
- US 8,060,592: Selectively Updating Network Devices by a Network Management Application
Currently Active Engagements
- Co-chair of the IETF NETCONF Working Group
- Co-chair of the IETF NETMOD Working Group
- Member of the Internet Architecture Board workshop on the Next Era of Network Management Operations
- Contributor in both the NETCONF and NETMOD working groups.