1. Copyright © 2002 Operator Requirements for Infrastructure Management Steve Feldman NANOG 24 – Feb. 12, 2002 - Miami

2. 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

3. 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

4. Copyright © 2002 Current Internet-Draft  http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ops- 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

5. 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.

6. Copyright © 2002 Some Open Issues  Text vs. machine readable output  Automation for “large” networks  Bulk commit

7. Copyright © 2002 Please Help!  Read the draft  Join the mailing list: ops-nm-request@ops.ietf.org  Contribute your opinions!

8. Copyright © 2002 Contacts  Chair: Steve Feldman – feldman@twincreeks.net  Document Editor: Bill Woodcock – woody@pch.net  Area Directors: Randy Bush and Bert Wijnen  Mailing List: ops-nm-request@ops.ietf.org  List archive: http://ops.ietf.org/lists/ops-nm/