A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : Problem Statement and Architecture for Transport-Independent Multiple Layer OAM Authors : Qin Wu Mishael Wexler Mohamed Boucadair Sam Aldrin Greg Mirsky Pradeep Jain Filename : draft-ww-opsawg-multi-layer-oam-01.txt Pages : 19 Date : 2014-06-29 Abstract: Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) mechanismsare critical building blocks in network operations that are used for service assurance, fulfillment, or service diagnosis, troubleshooting, and repair. The current practice is that many technologies rely on their own OAM protocols that are exclusive to a given layer. There is little consolidation of OAM in either data plane or management plane nor well-documented inter-layer OAM operations. Vendors and Operators dedicate significant resources and effort through the whole OAM life-cycle each time when a new technology is (to be) introduced. This is even exacerbated when dealing with integration of OAM across multiple technologies. This document describes the problem space and defines an architecture for the generic and integrated OAM with a focus of multi-layer and cross-layer considerations. The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ww-opsawg-multi-layer-oam/ There's also a htmlized version available at: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ww-opsawg-multi-layer-oam-01 A diff from the previous version is available at: http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ww-opsawg-multi-layer-oam-01 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