Technical report 69, or TR-069, which defines how people's broadband routers and other customer-premises equipment can be remotely provisioned and managed by ISPs automatically, is turning 20 years old.
It's a protocol that made providing broadband internet a lot easier and straight forward for subscribers.
Now's the time for TR-069, aka the CPE WAN Management Protocol, to retire gracefully, and be succeeded by TR-369 aka the User Services Platform or USP.
Jason Walls of QA Cafe, a co-director at the Broadband Forum, which oversees these technical specification, assured us it's going to be a smooth transition.
"We don't really use the term 'deprecate' as a hard line," Walls told us in an interview you can replay below. "It really just means is that the time has come for us to [say] we're not gonna change anything about [TR-069] … so all of our work in the future is all going to be on TR-369."