The IESG has received a request from the Autonomic Networking Integrated Model and Approach WG (anima) to consider the following document: - 'An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP)' <draft-ietf-anima-autonomic-control-plane-13.txt> as Proposed Standard 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 2018-02-26. 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 Autonomic functions need a control plane to communicate, which depends on some addressing and routing. This Autonomic Management and Control Plane should ideally be self-managing, and as independent as possible of configuration. This document defines such a plane and calls it the "Autonomic Control Plane", with the primary use as a control plane for autonomic functions. It also serves as a "virtual out of band channel" for OAM (Operations Administration and Management) communications over a network that is secure and reliable even when the network is not configured, or not misconfigured. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-anima-autonomic-control-plane/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-anima-autonomic-control-plane/ballot/ The following IPR Declarations may be related to this I-D: https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/2407/ The document contains these normative downward references. See RFC 3967 for additional information: draft-behringer-anima-autonomic-control-plane: An Autonomic Control Plane (None - ) draft-carpenter-anima-ani-objectives: Technical Objective Formats for the Autonomic Network Infrastructure (None - ) draft-behringer-autonomic-control-plane: An Autonomic Control Plane (None - ) draft-ietf-roll-applicability-template: ROLL Applicability Statement Template (None - IETF stream) draft-behringer-anima-autonomic-addressing: An Autonomic IPv6 Addressing Scheme (None - )
