Operations and Management Area Working Group (opsawg) Internet Drafts


      
 PCAP Capture File Format
 
 draft-ietf-opsawg-pcap-05.txt
 Date: 03/03/2025
 Authors: Guy Harris, Michael Richardson
 Working Group: Operations and Management Area Working Group (opsawg)
This document describes the format used by the libpcap library to record captured packets to a file. Programs using the libpcap library to read and write those files, and thus reading and writing files in that format, include tcpdump.
 Terminal Access Controller Access-Control System Plus over TLS 1.3 (TACACS+ over TLS)
 
 draft-ietf-opsawg-tacacs-tls13-21.txt
 Date: 11/05/2025
 Authors: Thorsten Dahm, John Heasley, dcmgash@cisco.com, Andrej Ota
 Working Group: Operations and Management Area Working Group (opsawg)
The Terminal Access Controller Access-Control System Plus (TACACS+) protocol provides device administration for routers, network access servers, and other networked computing devices via one or more centralized TACACS+ servers. This document adds Transport Layer Security (TLS 1.3) support to TACACS+ and obsoletes former inferior security mechanisms. This document updates RFC 8907.
 Export of Delay Performance Metrics in IP Flow Information eXport (IPFIX)
 
 draft-ietf-opsawg-ipfix-on-path-telemetry-17.txt
 Date: 05/04/2025
 Authors: Thomas Graf, Benoit Claise, Alex Feng
 Working Group: Operations and Management Area Working Group (opsawg)
This document specifies new IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) Information Elements to export the On-Path Telemetry measured delay on the OAM transit and decapsulating nodes.
 Link-Layer Types for PCAP-related Capture File Formats
 
 draft-ietf-opsawg-pcaplinktype-10.txt
 Date: 25/04/2025
 Authors: Guy Harris, Michael Richardson
 Working Group: Operations and Management Area Working Group (opsawg)
This document describes a set of PCAP-related LinkType values and creates an IANA registry for those values.
 PCAP Next Generation (pcapng) Capture File Format
 
 draft-ietf-opsawg-pcapng-03.txt
 Date: 03/03/2025
 Authors: Michael Tuexen, Fulvio Risso, Jasper Bongertz, Gerald Combs, Guy Harris, Eelco Chaudron, Michael Richardson
 Working Group: Operations and Management Area Working Group (opsawg)
This document describes a format to record captured packets to a file. This format is extensible; Wireshark can currently read and write it, and libpcap can currently read some pcapng files.
 A Data Manifest for Contextualized Telemetry Data
 
 draft-ietf-opsawg-collected-data-manifest-06.txt
 Date: 03/03/2025
 Authors: Benoit Claise, Jean Quilbeuf, Diego Lopez, Ignacio Martinez-Casanueva, Thomas Graf
 Working Group: Operations and Management Area Working Group (opsawg)
Network platforms use Model-driven Telemetry, such as YANG-Push, to continuously stream information, including both counters and state information. This document describes the metadata that ensure that the collected data can be interpreted correctly. This document specifies the data manifest, composed of two YANG data models (the platform manifest and the data collection manifest). These YANG modules are specified at the network (e.g. controller) level to provide a model that encompasses several network platforms. The data manifest must be streamed and stored along with the data, up to the collection and analytics systems in order to keep the collected data fully exploitable by the data scientists and relevant tools. Additionally, this document proposes an augmentation of the YANG-Push model to include the actual collection period, in case it differs from the configured collection period.
 Export of UDP Options Information in IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX)
 
 draft-ietf-opsawg-tsvwg-udp-ipfix-14.txt
 Date: 22/07/2024
 Authors: Mohamed Boucadair, Tirumaleswar Reddy.K
 Working Group: Operations and Management Area Working Group (opsawg)
This document specifies new IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) Information Elements for UDP options. Discussion Venues This note is to be removed before publishing as an RFC. Discussion of this document takes place on the Operations and Management Area Working Group Working Group mailing list (opsawg@ietf.org), which is archived at https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/opsawg/. Source for this draft and an issue tracker can be found at https://github.com/boucadair/udp-ipfix.
 A YANG Data Model and RADIUS Extension for Policy-based Network Access Control
 
 draft-ietf-opsawg-ucl-acl-07.txt
 Date: 20/03/2025
 Authors: Qiufang Ma, Qin WU, Mohamed Boucadair, Daniel King
 Working Group: Operations and Management Area Working Group (opsawg)
This document defines a YANG data model for policy-based network access control, which provides consistent and efficient enforcement of network access control policies based on group identity. Moreover, this document defines a mechanism to ease the maintenance of the mapping between a user group identifier and a set of IP/MAC addresses to enforce policy-based network access control. In addition, the document defines a Remote Authentication Dial-in User Service (RADIUS) attribute that is used to communicate the user group identifier as part of identification and authorization information.
 A Common YANG Data Model for Attachment Circuits
 
 draft-ietf-opsawg-teas-common-ac-15.txt
 Date: 23/01/2025
 Authors: Mohamed Boucadair, Richard Roberts, Oscar de Dios, Samier Barguil, Bo Wu
 Working Group: Operations and Management Area Working Group (opsawg)
The document specifies a common attachment circuits (ACs) YANG model, which is designed to be reusable by other models. This design is meant to ensure consistent AC structures among models that manipulate ACs. For example, this common model can be reused by service models to expose ACs as a service, service models that require binding a service to a set of ACs, network and device models to provision ACs, etc.
 YANG Data Models for Bearers and 'Attachment Circuits'-as-a-Service (ACaaS)
 
 draft-ietf-opsawg-teas-attachment-circuit-20.txt
 Date: 23/01/2025
 Authors: Mohamed Boucadair, Richard Roberts, Oscar de Dios, Samier Barguil, Bo Wu
 Working Group: Operations and Management Area Working Group (opsawg)
Delivery of network services assumes that appropriate setup is provisioned over the links that connect customer termination points and a provider network. The required setup to allow successful data exchange over these links is referred to as an attachment circuit (AC), while the underlying link is referred to as "bearer". This document specifies a YANG service data model for ACs. This model can be used for the provisioning of ACs before or during service provisioning (e.g., Network Slice Service). The document also specifies a YANG service model for managing bearers over which ACs are established.
 A Network YANG Data Model for Attachment Circuits
 
 draft-ietf-opsawg-ntw-attachment-circuit-16.txt
 Date: 23/01/2025
 Authors: Mohamed Boucadair, Richard Roberts, Oscar de Dios, Samier Barguil, Bo Wu
 Working Group: Operations and Management Area Working Group (opsawg)
This document specifies a network model for attachment circuits. The model can be used for the provisioning of attachment circuits prior or during service provisioning (e.g., VPN, Network Slice Service). A companion service model is specified in the YANG Data Models for Bearers and 'Attachment Circuits'-as-a-Service (ACaaS) (I-D.ietf- opsawg-teas-attachment-circuit). The module augments the base network ('ietf-network') and the Service Attachment Point (SAP) models with the detailed information for the provisioning of attachment circuits in Provider Edges (PEs).
 A YANG Data Model for Augmenting VPN Service and Network Models with Attachment Circuits
 
 draft-ietf-opsawg-ac-lxsm-lxnm-glue-14.txt
 Date: 23/01/2025
 Authors: Mohamed Boucadair, Richard Roberts, Samier Barguil, Oscar de Dios
 Working Group: Operations and Management Area Working Group (opsawg)
This document defines a YANG data model, referred to as the "AC Glue" model, to augment the Layer 2/3 Service Model (LxSM) and Layer 2/3 Network Model (LxNM) with references to attachment circuits (ACs). The AC Glue model enables a provider to associate Layer 2/3 VPN services (LxVPNs) with the underlying AC infrastructure, thereby facilitating consistent provisioning and management of new or existing ACs in conjunction with LxVPN services. Specifically, by introducing an integrated approach to AC and LxVPN management, this model supports Attachment Circuit-as-a-Service (ACaaS) and provides a standardized mechanism for aligning AC/VPN requests with the network configurations required to deliver them.
 Information and Data Models for Packet Discard Reporting
 
 draft-ietf-opsawg-discardmodel-07.txt
 Date: 01/05/2025
 Authors: John Evans, Oleksandr Pylypenko, Jeffrey Haas, Aviran Kadosh, Mohamed Boucadair
 Working Group: Operations and Management Area Working Group (opsawg)
This document defines an information model and a corresponding YANG data model for packet discard reporting. The information model provides an implementation-independent framework for classifying packet loss to enable automated network mitigation of unintended packet loss. The YANG data model specifies an implementation of this framework for network elements.
 Guidelines for Characterizing "OAM"
 
 draft-ietf-opsawg-oam-characterization-06.txt
 Date: 15/05/2025
 Authors: Carlos Pignataro, Adrian Farrel, Tal Mizrahi
 Working Group: Operations and Management Area Working Group (opsawg)
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. While, at first glance, the most used appear to be well understood, the same qualifier may be interpreted differently in different contexts. A case in point is the qualifiers "in-band" and "out-of-band" which have their origins in the radio lexicon, and which have been extrapolated into other communication networks. 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 RFC 6291.
 IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) Alternate-Marking Information Elements
 
 draft-ietf-opsawg-ipfix-alt-mark-02.txt
 Date: 20/02/2025
 Authors: Thomas Graf, Giuseppe Fioccola, Tianran Zhou, Mauro Cociglio, Massimo Nilo
 Working Group: Operations and Management Area Working Group (opsawg)
This document specifies the IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) Information Elements (IEs) to export Alternate Marking measurement data.
 Export of GTP-U Information in IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX)
 
 draft-ietf-opsawg-ipfix-gtpu-05.txt
 Date: 15/04/2025
 Authors: Dan Voyer, Sriram Gopalakrishnan, Thomas Graf, Vyasraj Satyanarayana
 Working Group: Operations and Management Area Working Group (opsawg)
This document introduces IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) Information Elements to report information contained in the Generic Packet Radio Service Tunneling Protocol User Plane header such as Tunnel Endpoint Identifier, and data contained in its session container extension header.
 A YANG Data Model for Terminal Access Controller Access-Control System Plus (TACACS+)
 
 draft-ietf-opsawg-secure-tacacs-yang-11.txt
 Date: 05/05/2025
 Authors: Mohamed Boucadair, Bo Wu
 Working Group: Operations and Management Area Working Group (opsawg)
This document defines a Terminal Access Controller Access-Control System Plus (TACACS+) client YANG module that augments the System Management data model, defined in RFC 7317, to allow devices to make use of TACACS+ servers for centralized Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA). Specifically, this document defines a YANG module for TACACS+ over TLS 1.3. This document obsoletes RFC 9105.
 A YANG Data Model for Network Diagnosis using Scheduled Sequences of OAM Tests
 
 draft-ietf-opsawg-scheduling-oam-tests-00.txt
 Date: 29/01/2025
 Authors: Luis Contreras, Victor Lopez
 Working Group: Operations and Management Area Working Group (opsawg)
This document defines a YANG data model for network diagnosis on- demand relying upon Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) tests. This document defines both 'oam-unitary-test' and 'oam-test- sequence' YANG modules to manage the lifecycle of network diagnosis procedures.
 Publishing End-Site Prefix Lengths
 
 draft-ietf-opsawg-prefix-lengths-03.txt
 Date: 24/04/2025
 Authors: Oliver Gasser, Randy Bush, Massimo Candela, Russ Housley
 Working Group: Operations and Management Area Working Group (opsawg)
This document specifies how to augment the Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL) inetnum: class to refer specifically to prefixlen comma-separated values (CSV) data files and describes an optional scheme that uses the Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) to authenticate the prefixlen data files.
 Applying COSE Signatures for YANG Data Provenance
 
 draft-ietf-opsawg-yang-provenance-00.txt
 Date: 09/05/2025
 Authors: Diego Lopez, Antonio Pastor, Alex Feng, Ana Perez, Henk Birkholz, Sofia Garcia
 Working Group: Operations and Management Area Working Group (opsawg)
This document defines a mechanism based on COSE signatures to provide and verify the provenance of YANG data, so it is possible to verify the origin and integrity of a dataset, even when those data are going to be processed and/or applied in workflows where a crypto-enabled data transport directly from the original data stream is not available. As the application of evidence-based OAM automation and the use of tools such as AI/ML grow, provenance validation becomes more relevant in all scenarios. The use of compact signatures facilitates the inclusion of provenance strings in any YANG schema requiring them.


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Operations and Management Area Working Group (opsawg)

WG Name Operations and Management Area Working Group
Acronym opsawg
Area Operations and Management Area (ops)
State Active
Charter charter-ietf-opsawg-05 Approved
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Personnel Chairs Benoît Claise, Joe Clarke
Area Director Mahesh Jethanandani
Mailing list Address opsawg@ietf.org
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Archive https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/opsawg/
Chat Room address https://zulip.ietf.org/#narrow/stream/opsawg

Charter for Working Group

The Operations and Management Area receives occasional proposals for the development and publication of RFCs dealing with operational and management topics. The OPSAWG will serve as the forum to:

  • Develop such work items that are not in the scope of an existing OPS WG and do not justify the formation of a new WG or belong to a WG that has already concluded. The OPSAWG mailing list will serve as a discussion forum for such work items when they arise, and the WG will meet to discuss if there are active proposals.
  • Find a more appropriate WG in the IETF for the work if OPSAWG is not the right forum.
  • Help collect work items and gauge interest to determine whether a new WG should be chartered.

Examples include the advancement of documents on the standards track, application statements, maintenance, and minor extensions of documents that were developed in working groups that have concluded, e.g., IPFIX, network or service level YANG modules, and tools for the Operations and Management Area.

The OPSAWG will undertake only work items that have been proven to have at least a reasonable level of interest from the operators, vendor and user community and have a committed number of editors and reviewers. It is not within the scope of the OPSAWG to pick up any failed work of other OPS WG.

Milestones

Date Milestone Associated documents
Apr 2026 Submit IM and DM for Packet Discard Reporting as Proposed Standard draft-ietf-opsawg-discardmodel
Dec 2025 Submit End-Site Prefix Lengths as Proposed Standard draft-ietf-opsawg-prefix-lengths
Dec 2025 Submit Guidelines for Characterizing "OAM" as a BCP draft-ietf-opsawg-oam-characterization
Dec 2025 Submit Alternate-Marking IE for IPFIX as Proposed Standard draft-ietf-opsawg-ipfix-alt-mark
Dec 2025 Submit YANG Data Model and RADIUS Extension for Policy-based Network Access Control as Proposed Standard draft-ietf-opsawg-ucl-acl
Dec 2025 Submit PCAP and PCAPng Link Type as Informational draft-ietf-opsawg-pcaplinktype
Dec 2025 Submit PCAPng File Format as Informational draft-ietf-opsawg-pcapng
Dec 2025 Submit PCAP Capture File Format as Historic draft-ietf-opsawg-pcap
Sep 2025 Submit Contextualized Telemetry Data as Proposed Standard draft-ietf-opsawg-collected-data-manifest
Sep 2025 Submit On Path Telemetry in IPFIX as Proposed Standard draft-ietf-opsawg-ipfix-on-path-telemetry
Sep 2025 Submit GTP-U in IPFIX as Proposed Standard draft-ietf-opsawg-ipfix-gtpu
Sep 2025 Submit TACACS+ YANG Model as Proposed Standard draft-ietf-opsawg-secure-tacacs-yang
Jul 2025 Submit TACACS+ TLS as Proposed Standard draft-ietf-opsawg-tacacs-tls13