The IESG has received a request from the Autonomic Networking Integrated Model and Approach WG (anima) to consider the following document: - 'Using Autonomic Control Plane for Stable Connectivity of Network OAM' <draft-ietf-anima-stable-connectivity-07.txt> as Informational RFC The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2017-11-26. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to iesg@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract OAM (Operations, Administration and Maintenance - as per BCP161, (RFC6291) processes for data networks are often subject to the problem of circular dependencies when relying on connectivity provided by the network to be managed for the OAM purposes. Provisioning while bringing up devices and networks tends to be more difficult to automate than service provisioning later on, changes in core network functions impacting reachability cannot be automated because of ongoing connectivity requirements for the OAM equipment itself, and widely used OAM protocols are not secure enough to be carried across the network without security concerns. This document describes how to integrate OAM processes with the autonomic control plane (ACP) in Autonomic Networks (AN) in order to provide stable and secure connectivity for those OAM processes. This connectivity is not subject to aforementioned circular dependencies. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-anima-stable-connectivity/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-anima-stable-connectivity/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
