Operations and Management Area Working Group (opsawg)

Last Modified: 2008-08-21

Additional information is available at tools.ietf.org/wg/opsawg

Chair(s):

  • Scott Bradner <sob@harvard.edu>

  • Ted Seely <ted.a.seely@sprint.com>

    Operations and Management Area Director(s):

  • Dan Romascanu <dromasca@avaya.com>
  • Ronald Bonica <rbonica@juniper.net>

    Operations and Management Area Advisor:

  • Dan Romascanu <dromasca@avaya.com>

    Mailing Lists:

    General Discussion: opsawg@ietf.org
    To Subscribe: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/opsawg
    Archive: http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/opsawg/current/index.html

    Description of Working Group:

    The Operations and Management Area receives occasional proposals for
    the development and publication of RFCs dealing with operational and
    management topics that are not in scope of an existing working group
    and do not justify the formation of a new working group. The OPSAWG
    will serve as the forum for developing such work items in the IETF.

    The OPSAWG mailing list is an open discussion forum for such work
    items, when they arise. The working group meets if there are active
    proposals that require discussion. The working group milestones are
    updated as needed to reflect the current work items and their
    associated milestones. All new work items and rechartering proposals
    will be brought for approval with the IESG.

    The focus of the work will be on topics that govern the behavior or WGs
    in the O&M area (e.g., manageability requirements) and on small,
    highly focused projects that don't merit a WG of their own or belong
    to WGs that have already concluded (e.g. advancement of documents on
    the standards track, application statements, extensions of MIB
    modules).

    The OPSAWG will undertake only work items that are proved to have at
    least a reasonable level of interest from the operators and users
    community and have a committed number of editors and reviewers. It is
    not within the scope of the OPSAWG to pick up failed WG work or parts
    of a WG charter items that could not come to convergence on what they
    were chartered to do.

    The currently active OPSAWG work items mostly fall under the following
    topics:

    (A) Development of a BCP document that will provide guidelines for
    authors and a reference for reviewers of IETF documents that specify
    new protocols or protocol extensions about the information about
    operational and manageability requirements that needs to be covered in
    these documents

    (B) Templates and tools for Operations and Management Area Documents

    (C) Maintenance and small scale extensions of documents that were
    developed in working groups that have concluded (e.g. MIB modules).

    Goals and Milestones:

    Done  Initial submission for the 'SNMP Engine ID Discovery' Internet-Draft
    Oct 2007  Initial submission for the 'Template for Generic Management Data Models' Internet-Draft
    Oct 2007  Initial submission for the 'Structured Data Elements (SDEs) for syslog' Internet-Draft
    Oct 2007  WGLC for the 'SNMP Engine ID Discovery' Internet-Draft
    Done  Initial submission for the 'Guidelines for Considering Operations and Management of New Protocols' Internet-Draft
    Dec 2007  Submit the 'SNMP Engine ID Discovery' Internet-Draft to the IESG for consideration as Proposed Standard
    Dec 2007  WGLC for the 'Guidelines for Considering Operations and Management of New Protocols' Internet-Draft
    Feb 2008  Submit the 'Guidelines for Considering Operations and Management of New Protocols' Internet-Draft to the IESG for consideration as BCP
    Apr 2008  WGLC for the 'Template for Generic Management Data Models'
    Apr 2008  WGLC for the 'Structured Data Elements (SDEs) for syslog'
    Jun 2008  Submit the 'Template for Generic Management Data Models' to the IESG for consideration as BCP
    Jun 2008  Submit the 'Structured Data Elements (SDEs) for syslog' to the IESG for consideration as Proposed Standard

    Internet-Drafts:

    Guidelines for Considering Operations and Management of New Protocols (77161 bytes)
    Expressing SNMP SMI Datatypes in XML Schema Definition Language (31595 bytes)
    Alarms in SYSLOG (14520 bytes)

    Request For Comments:

    Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Context EngineID Discovery (RFC 5343) (19938 bytes) updates RFC 3411
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