A new IETF working group has been proposed in the Operations and Management Area. The IESG has not made any determination as yet. The following draft charter was submitted, and is provided for informational purposes only. Please send your comments to the IESG mailing list (iesg@ietf.org) by June 4th. +++ Operations and Management Area Working Group (opsawg) ====================================================== Current Status: Proposed Working Group Chair(s): TBD TBD Operations and Management Area Directors: Dan Romascanu <dromasca@avaya.com> Ronald Bonica <rbonica@juniper.net> Description: The Operations and Management Area receives occasional proposals for the development and publication of RFCs dealing with operational and management topics that are not in scope of an existing working group and do not justify the formation of a new working group. The OPSAWG will serve as the forum for developing such work items in the IETF. The OPSAWG mailing list is an open discussion forum for such work items, when they arise. The working group meets if there are active proposals that require discussion. The working group milestones are updated as needed to reflect the current work items and their associated milestones. All new work items and rechartering proposals will be brought for approval with the IESG. The focus of the work will be on topics that govern the behavior or WGs in the O&M area (e.g., manageability requirements) and on small, highly focused projects that don't merit a WG of their own or belong to WGs that have already concluded (e.g. advancement of documents on the standards track, application statements, extensions of MIB modules). The OPSAWG will undertake only work items that are proved to have at least a reasonable level of interest from the operators and users community and have a committed number of editors and reviewers. It is not within the scope of the OPSAWG to pick up failed WG work or parts of a WG charter items that could not come to convergence on what they were chartered to do. The currently active OPSAWG work items mostly fall under the following topics: (A) Development of a BCP document that will provide guidelines for authors and a reference for reviewers of IETF documents that specify new protocols or protocol extensions about the information about operational and manageability requirements that needs to be covered in these documents (B) Templates and tools for Operations and Management Area Documents (C) Maintenance and small scale extensions of documents that were developed in working groups that have concluded (e.g. MIB modules). Goals and Milestones: June 2007 - Initial submission for the "Guidelines for Considering Operations and Management of New Protocols" Internet-Draft June 2007 - Initial submission for the "SNMP Engine ID Discovery" Internet-Draft October 2007 - Initial submission for the "Template for Generic Management Data Models" Internet-Draft October 2007 - Initial submission for the "Structured Data Elements (SDEs) for syslog" Internet-Draft October 2007 - WGLC for the "SNMP Engine ID Discovery" Internet-Draft December 2007 - WGLC for the "Guidelines for Considering Operations and Management of New Protocols" Internet-Draft December 2007 - Submit the "SNMP Engine ID Discovery" Internet-Draft to the IESG for consideration as Informational RFC February 2008 - Submit the "Guidelines for Considering Operations and Management of New Protocols" Internet-Draft to the IESG for consideration as BCP April 2008 - WGLC for the "Template for Generic Management Data Models" April 2008 - WGLC for the "Structured Data Elements (SDEs) for syslog" June 2008 - Submit the "Template for Generic Management Data Models" to the IESG for consideration as BCP June 2008 - Submit the "Structured Data Elements (SDEs) for syslog" to the IESG for consideration as Proposed Standard _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
