The IESG has received a request from the Operations and Management Area Working Group WG (opsawg) to consider the following document: - 'An Overview of Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) Mechanisms' <draft-ietf-opsawg-oam-overview-08.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 2013-01-25. 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 Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) is a general term that refers to a toolset that can be used for fault detection and isolation, and for performance measurement. OAM mechanisms have been defined for various layers in the protocol stack, and are used with a variety of protocols. This document presents an overview of the OAM mechanisms that have been defined and are currently being defined by the IETF. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-opsawg-oam-overview/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-opsawg-oam-overview/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
