The IESG has approved the following document: - 'I2RS Ephemeral State Requirements' (draft-ietf-i2rs-ephemeral-state-23.txt) as Informational RFC This document is the product of the Interface to the Routing System Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Alvaro Retana, Alia Atlas and Deborah Brungard. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-i2rs-ephemeral-state/ Technical Summary This document describes requirements for those implementing the I2RS higher-layer protocol (i.e., netconf and netmod IETF working groups) for functionality to support ephemeral state. Working Group Summary This draft has been debated over the past three years, and at IETF 96 - netconf and i2rs WG straw-polls had no comments. This was included in netmod's longer discussion on operational state. The Working group process ran from August 2 to August 15, please see https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/i2rs/current/msg03858.html Conclusion of the WG LC is at: https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/i2rs/current/msg03984.html Follow-up to WG LC is at: https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/i2rs/current/msg03989.html Document Quality OpenDaylight, Juniper, and the IETF hackathon have created existing pre-standard work. This draft documents the requirements around the ephemeral state concept that is core to the functionality of I2RS. These requirements have been discussed at netmod, netconf, and i2rs working group meetings. Personnel Document Shepherd: Joe Clarke AD: Alia Atlas Working Group Chairs: Sue Hares and Russ White