The NETCONF client encodes an RPC request in XML and sends it to the server using a secure, connection-oriented session. The server responds with a reply encoded in XML.
The communication between the client and server consists of a series of alternating request and reply messages. NETCONF peers use <rpc> and <rpc-reply> elements to provide transport protocol-independent framing of NETCONF requests and responses. The NETCONF server processes these RPC requests sequentially in the order in which they are received.