1.3 Overview

The Device Registration Join Protocol provides for issuance of X.509v3 digital certificates, and is intended for use as a lightweight device-registration server. The protocol is based loosely on
[MS-DVRE].

The Device Registration Join Protocol provides a single REST-based endpoint that returns JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)–formatted data in the response message.

This document defines and uses the following terms:

device registration service (DRS) server: The server that implements the REST Web service that accepts and responds to device registration requests using the Device Registration Join Protocol.

client: The entity that creates and sends a request to the server using the Device Registration Join Protocol.