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Kent Watsen
At the 2 September 2026 capture, the official IETF Datatracker describes Kent Watsen as an industry expert in network management and security, lists current IETF chair and reviewer roles, and records RFC 8040, RFC 8342 and RFC 9984 among his RFCs. RFC 9984 names him with Alex Huang-Feng and Pierre Francois as authors of the Standards Track YANG groupings for UDP clients and servers. These records establish capture-dated participation and collective authorship, not sole invention, ownership of YANG or control of any implementation or deployment.
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- Public roleAt the 2 September 2026 capture, the official IETF Datatracker describes Kent Watsen as an industry expert in network management and security, lists current IETF chair and reviewer roles, and records RFC 8040, RFC 8342 and RFC 9984 among his RFCs. RFC 9984 names him with Alex Huang-Feng and Pierre Francois as authors of the Standards Track YANG groupings for UDP clients and servers. These records establish capture-dated participation and collective authorship, not sole invention, ownership of YANG or control of any implementation or deployment.Medium confidence
- Source basisPublic RDAP / registry recordsMedium confidence
- Last verifiedSep 01, 2026High confidence
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- NameKent WatsenHigh confidence
- Public roleAt the 2 September 2026 capture, the official IETF Datatracker describes Kent Watsen as an industry expert in network management and security, lists current IETF chair and reviewer roles, and records RFC 8040, RFC 8342 and RFC 9984 among his RFCs. RFC 9984 names him with Alex Huang-Feng and Pierre Francois as authors of the Standards Track YANG groupings for UDP clients and servers. These records establish capture-dated participation and collective authorship, not sole invention, ownership of YANG or control of any implementation or deployment.Medium confidence
- Last verifiedSep 01, 2026High confidence