A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the Network Management Research Group Working Group of the IETF. Title : Gap Analysis for Autonomic Networking Authors : Michael H. Behringer Brian Carpenter Sheng Jiang Filename : draft-irtf-nmrg-an-gap-analysis-00.txt Pages : 13 Date : 2014-04-02 Abstract: This document summarises a problem statement for an IP-based autonomic network that is mainly based on distributed network devices. The document reviews the history and current status of autonomic aspects of IP networks. It then reviews the current network management style, which is still heavily depending on human administrators. Finally the document describes the general gaps between the ideal autonomic network concept and the current network abilities. The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-irtf-nmrg-an-gap-analysis/ There's also a htmlized version available at: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-irtf-nmrg-an-gap-analysis-00 Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of submission until the htmlized version and diff are available at tools.ietf.org. Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ _______________________________________________ I-D-Announce mailing list I-D-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i-d-announce Internet-Draft directories: http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt