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 the 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 focus of the work will be on topics that fulfill the following conditions:
- Topics of general interest to the operational & management Area that don’t otherwise belong to another OPS Working Group.
- On small, highly focused projects that don't merit a WG of their own or belong to WGs that have already concluded

Examples include the advancement of documents on the standards track, application statements, maintenance, and small-scale extensions of documents that were developed in working groups that have concluded (e.g. IPFIX), network-level YANG modules, and tools for the Operations and Management Area.

The OPSAWG will undertake only work items that are proven to have at least a reasonable level of interest from the operators and user 
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 WG charter items that could not come to convergence on what they were chartered to do.