Operations and Management Area Working Group (opsawg)
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 Charter
 Last Modified: 2007-11-26

 Current Status: Active Working Group

 Chair(s):
     Scott Bradner  <sob@harvard.edu>
     Ted Seely  <ted.a.seely@sprint.com>

 Operations and Management Area Director(s):
     Dan Romascanu  <dromasca@avaya.com>
     Ronald Bonica  <rbonica@juniper.net>

 Operations and Management Area Advisor:
     Dan Romascanu  <dromasca@avaya.com>

 Mailing Lists: 
     General Discussion:opsawg@ietf.org
     To Subscribe:      https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/opsawg
     Archive:           http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/opsawg/current/index.html

Description of Working Group:

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:

   Done         Initial submission for the 'SNMP Engine ID Discovery' 
                Internet-Draft 

   Oct 2007       Initial submission for the 'Template for Generic Management 
                Data Models' Internet-Draft 

   Oct 2007       Initial submission for the 'Structured Data Elements (SDEs) for 
                syslog' Internet-Draft 

   Oct 2007       WGLC for the 'SNMP Engine ID Discovery' Internet-Draft 

   Done         Initial submission for the 'Guidelines for Considering 
                Operations and Management of New Protocols' Internet-Draft 

   Dec 2007       Submit the 'SNMP Engine ID Discovery' Internet-Draft to the 
                IESG for consideration as Proposed Standard 

   Dec 2007       WGLC for the 'Guidelines for Considering Operations and 
                Management of New Protocols' Internet-Draft 

   Feb 2008       Submit the 'Guidelines for Considering Operations and 
                Management of New Protocols' Internet-Draft to the IESG for 
                consideration as BCP 

   Apr 2008       WGLC for the 'Template for Generic Management Data Models' 

   Apr 2008       WGLC for the 'Structured Data Elements (SDEs) for syslog' 

   Jun 2008       Submit the 'Template for Generic Management Data Models' to the 
                IESG for consideration as BCP 

   Jun 2008       Submit the 'Structured Data Elements (SDEs) for syslog' to the 
                IESG for consideration as Proposed Standard 


 Internet-Drafts:

Posted Revised         I-D Title   <Filename>
------ ------- --------------------------------------------
Jul 2007 Jan 2008   <draft-ietf-opsawg-snmp-engineid-discovery-01.txt>
                Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Context EngineID 
                Discovery 

Sep 2007 Dec 2007   <draft-ietf-opsawg-operations-and-management-02.txt>
                Guidelines for Considering Operations and Management of New 
                Protocols 

Feb 2008 Feb 2008   <draft-ietf-opsawg-smi-datatypes-in-xsd-00.txt>
                Expressing SNMP SMI Datatypes in XML Schema Definition Language 

 Request For Comments:

  None to date.