Re: [Time] OAM Initiative: Situation

[Qin Wu <[e-mail]>]

Thank Benoit and Joel for the update of the current status.
“OAM initiative” is a good name, I think.
It remind me IESG/IAB arranged a Joint Design Session on Forwarding Plane OAM
Before to discuss tunneled forwarding plane OAM,
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/oam/current/msg00037.html

However the scope of this design session is limited to the forwarding plane. Proposals concerning
On control/management plane was not touched.

Even this, some of their proposal matches what we proposed in the PS draft right now, .e.g.,
In draft-bonica-oam-considerations-00, it said:
“
The API should insulate the user application from the following
   details:

      - The procedure that the OAM mechanism employed to obtain OAM
      information

      - Whether the OAM mechanism is integrated into the lower layer
      protocol

”
Regards!
-Qin
发件人: Time [mailto:[e-mail]] 代表 Benoit Claise
发送时间: 2014年9月8日 16:01
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主题: [Time] OAM Initiative: Situation

Dear all,

[Let us call this "OAM Inititiave" for now, as the mailing list is being renamed from TIME to LIME]
During the last IETF meeting, there were various discussions with different audiences regarding OAM.

Here is what we concluded:
1. Building an OAM generic protocol is impractical for multiple reasons.
2. It is desirable to have an unified view of OAM information at each layer, in order to correlate information, and detect the faulty element in the network path
3.. Consistent configuration, reporting, and presentation for the OAM mechanisms makes sense.
4. Using YANG as a modeling language is a logical choice. Note that there are already some efforts in that direction
5. A set of guidelines for future OAM developments would be welcome for consistency sake
We also believe that there is sufficient interest to start working on a charter proposal.
Regards, Joel and Benoit (OPS ADs)













*         We should preserve the existing OAM technology implementations and behavior “on-the-wire”

*         We will propose a unified management interface for multiple OAM technologies that will expose a common set of management interface capabilities for different OAM technologies (e.g. ping, traceroute)

*         The management interface implementation will convert the defined common management capabilities to the OAM technology specific operations

*         We will model OAM operations management using YANG following


*         Specific OAM technology models will augment the generic OAM management model

*         Cisco will support continued development of technology specific OAM standards within the appropriate IETF technology working groups

*         We will promote generic OAM in the IETF OPS Working Group

*         We will propose a set of guidelines new OAM technology implementations should follow
*         We will investigate methods for scaling the return of large volumes of OAM data from the network