The IESG has approved the following document: - 'A Generic Autonomic Signaling Protocol (GRASP)' (draft-ietf-anima-grasp-15.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Autonomic Networking Integrated Model and Approach Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Warren Kumari, Benoit Claise and Terry Manderson. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-anima-grasp/ Technical Summary This document describes the requirements for a signaling protocol that enables autonomic devices and autonomic service agents to dynamically discover peers, to synchronize state with them, and to negotiate parameter settings mutually with them. The document then defines a general protocol for discovery, synchronization and negotiation, which can be suitable for variable technical objectives. The technical objectives for specific scenarios out of scope. Working Group Summary This document was called draft-carpenter-anima-gdn-protocol prior to its adoption. There was unanimous support for it in favor of adoption and none against), so this document was adopted in August 2015. There was interest in this work posts since its adoption. There was never any opposition for this work. This document went through a relevant long document development period (10 months for individual document period, 17 month for WG document period). It has been reviewed well. Document Quality This document went through multiple reviews by multiple WG participants. There are at least two existing implementations. Both Cisco and Huawei showed interests to implement the specification Personnel Sheng Jiang is the document shepherd. Terry Manderson is the responsible AD. IANA Note IANA is asked to assign 2 multicast addresses for ALL_GRASP_NEIGHBOR multicast address (IPv6) and ALL_GRASP_NEIGHBOR multicast address (IPv4); 1 port for both UDP and TCP: GRASP_LISTEN_PORT. IANA is requested to create a GRASP Parameter Registry including two registry tables: the GRASP Messages and Options Table and the GRASP Objective Names Table. In the the GRASP Messages and Options Table, 18 intial values are assigned for M_NOOP, M_DISCOVERY, M_RESPONSE, M_REQ_NEG, M_REQ_SYN, M_NEGOTIATE, M_END, M_WAIT, M_SYNCH, M_FLOOD, M_INVALID, O_DIVERT, O_ACCEPT, O_DECLINE, O_IPv6_LOCATOR, O_IPv4_LOCATOR, O_FQDN_LOCATOR and O_URI_LOCATO. There is no initial value assigned in the GRASP Objective Names Table.
