Re: [Call-home] last call for a Call Home BoF

[Pekka Nikander <[e-mail]>]

Eliot,

I think it is important to discuss this problem space, as there are a  
number of completely different approaches already being developed,  
including STUN/ICE/whatever and IPsec with NAT-T.  Whether the  
proposed approach is a good addition to the set is something that  
could clearly be discussed in a BOF.

--Pekka NIkander

On Oct 12, 2005, at 10:12, Eliot Lear wrote:

> After all of the mail last month, Bert is considering allowing a  
> BoF on the topic of Call Home.  I initially posted a note to the  
> call-home mailing list announcing the possibility of a BoF.   
> Response to that note was - well - underwhelming.  If you are  
> interested in seeing one, could you please reply to this email,  
> CCing the call-home mailing list.  Here is a draft agenda.  It is  
> subject to your input.
>
> If we do not see much input, I'm going to drop the request to Bert.
>
> Eliot
>
> Title: callhome
> Period of time: 1 hour
> Area: ops-nm
> Expected # attendees: 40-60 (small room)
> Don't conflict with: ISMS, ops-area, netconf (if there is one)
>
>
> Short Description: Discussion of Architectural Issues Concerning
>            protocols that could benefit from reversing
>            of roles
>
> Long Description:
>
> Certain protocols, and in particular management protocols where
> devices on either end of connection take client server roles may
> be able to take advantage of "Call Home" functionality, when
> traditional roles are reversed, and a server connect to a client.
> Examples of existing protocols that make use of call home include
> SMTP [ETRN] and COPS.  At this BoF we will look at extending such
> functionality into other protocols, as well as any architectural
> issues this raises.
>
> This work stems from efforts in ISMS to extend SNMP to run over SSH,
> as well as work as work that has gone on in NETCONF.
>
> We will begin with a discussion of draft-lear-callhome-description-0 
> [1,2].txt, which contains a description of call home, what problems  
> it can solve, and what some of the architectural issues are.   
> During the BoF we may identify additional such issues as well as  
> protocols other than management protocols that could benefit from  
> this work.  An additional potential question should be whether a  
> generic standard or process should be used to implement call home,  
> such as rules for SSH.
>
> There are three possible outcomes: a working group to add "call home"
> functionality to existing protocols such as SNMP/SSH and NETCONF/SSH,
> use of existing working groups for this purpose, or nothing.
>
> Chair: Eliot Lear (or tbd)
> Agenda:
>
> Agenda bashing - 1 minute
> Presentation of draft-lear-callhome-description-00.txt 19 minutes
> Application to SNMP and open areas - 10 minutes
> Discussion including architectural issues - 20 minutes
> Moving Forward Options  - 10 minutes
>
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