The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Guidelines for Characterizing the Term "OAM"' (draft-ietf-opsawg-oam-characterization-17.txt) as Best Current Practice
This document is the product of the Operations and Management Area Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Mahesh Jethanandani and Mohamed Boucadair. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-opsawg-oam-characterization/ Technical Summary As the IETF continues to produce and standardize different Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) protocols and technologies, various qualifiers and modifiers are prepended to the OAM abbreviation. This document considers some common qualifiers and modifiers that are prepended, within the context of packet networks, to the OAM abbreviation and lays out guidelines for their use in future IETF work. This document updates RFC 6291 by adding to the guidelines for the use of the term "OAM". It does not modify any other part of RFC6291. Working Group Summary There was some controversies during the lifetime of this draft, mainly from one particular individual, up to the point where the document was stalled after a first WGLC. A new document shepherd and the additional of a third author brought new perspective to the document. A second WGLC helped successfully resolve the remaining issues. Review requests were shared early in the process with relevant WGs (MPLS, BESS, IPPM, DETNET, etc.). This was done by the authors and also the first document shepherd. Clarifications of some specific points involved other groups (PALS, PW3, in particular). That feedback helped confirm the position recorded in the document about path congruence and QoS treatment. Document Quality The document is well-written and its intended use is well-articulated. There are no implementations, as this document provides guidelines for characterizing OAM. Personnel The Document Shepherd for this document is Benoît Claise. The Responsible Area Director is Mohamed Boucadair. _______________________________________________ OPSAWG mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
