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IETF Network Management Framework and Standards

draft-ersue-opsawg-management-fw-01

IETF #79, BeijingO&M Area Working Group WG

mehmet.ersue@nsn.com

Guideline for NM Standard usage

• Newcomers and other SDOs are asking for guidance on the usage of IETF network management standards– e.g. folks from NIST SGIP and IEC have recently asked for it

• To help standard developers and implementers we need to: – explain the overall IETF Network Management Framework, – give a profile of recommended technologies and building

blocks• management standards which fit and work well together

– explain the usage scenario for specific management protocols

– but also highlight RFCs which are not recommended to use (e.g. COPS-PR)

2SGIP: Smart Grid Interoperability PanelIEC: International Electrotechnical Commission

IETF Network Management Framework

• draft-ersue-opsawg-management-fw-01 uses the expired I-D draft-ietf-opsawg-survey-management-00 (contributed by David Harrington) as a starting point

– gives an overview of the IETF standard management framework,– summarizes existing and ongoing development of standards-track

network management protocols and data models.

• The document can be also used as a guideline by other SDOs or bodies planning to use IETF management technologies and data models.

• The document mainly refers to Proposed, Draft or Full Standard documents at IETF.

– As far as it is valuable standard track I-Ds just before publication and Best Current Practice (BCP) documents are referenced.

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Next Steps and Action Points

• Keep the document focused as a guideline– put parts specific to Smart Grid in an applicability

statement– discuss main usage scenarios– discuss new technologies like EMAN in an appendix

• Extend the draft for specific topics with the help of contributors:– SNMP and MIBs, SYSLOG, etc. (David Harrington)– IPFIX, PSAMP (Juergen Quittek)– YANG usage (Juergen Schönwälder)– Radius und Diameter (Jouni Korhonen)– IPv6 operations (Fred Baker)– Eman usage scenarios und discussion (Benoit Claise)

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The Plan to go forward

• Start discussion on OPSAWG ML • Get it stable• Prepare to publish beginning of 2011 as

Informational RFC– Make available in NIST SGIP and IEC

• It seems there is already support for this work to publish

• Backing of O&M area WG would be helpful

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