Copyright © 2002 Operator Requirements for Infrastructure Management Steve Feldman NANOG 24 – Feb. 12, Miami
Copyright © 2002 Introduction IETF Operations/Network Management area outreach to network operators Find out what operators really use and want Help set agenda for future IETF work Recommendations to vendors
Copyright © 2002 Meetings May 2001: NANOG – Scottsdale, AZ August 2001: IETF – London, UK October 2001: RIPE – Prague, CZ November 2001: USENIX LISA - San Diego, CA December 2001: IETF – Salt Lake City, UT
Copyright © 2002 Current Internet-Draft operator-req-mgmt-01.txt Author: Bill Woodcock New revision “real soon now” –revise document structure –latest thinking on requirements Goal: IETF last call and publication as Informational RFC
Copyright © 2002 Some Proposed Requirements ASCII communications. One syntax and vocabulary for all common functions. Secure and authenticated in-band interactive and batch communications must be available. Devices must support a configuration display mode which makes all assumed and default values visible.
Copyright © 2002 Some Open Issues Text vs. machine readable output Automation for “large” networks Bulk commit
Copyright © 2002 Please Help! Read the draft Join the mailing list: Contribute your opinions!
Copyright © 2002 Contacts Chair: Steve Feldman – Document Editor: Bill Woodcock – Area Directors: Randy Bush and Bert Wijnen Mailing List: List archive: