[5] In April 2019, the Internet Engineering Task Force published RFC 8572 Secure Zero Touch Provisioning (SZTP) as a Proposed Standard.
[9] A basic ZTP system requires a network device that supports ZTP, a server that supports Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) or Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP), and a file server.
A switch then sends a request using DHCP or TFTP to get the device's configuration file from a central location.
[10] In the summer of 2019, the group published a series of documents defining ZSM requirements, reference architecture and terminology.
[10] In April 2019, the Internet Engineering Task Force published RFC 8572 Secure Zero Touch Provisioning (SZTP) as a Proposed Standard.