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   <front>
      <title>Operational Requirements for Network State Exchange in Agent-Assisted Network Operations</title>
      <author initials="Y." surname="Cui" fullname="Yong Cui">
         <organization>Tsinghua University</organization>
      </author>
      <author initials="M." surname="Xing" fullname="Mingzhe Xing">
         <organization>Zhongguancun Laboratory</organization>
      </author>
      <author initials="L." surname="Zhang" fullname="Lei Zhang">
         <organization>Zhongguancun Laboratory</organization>
      </author>
      <date month="July" day="3" year="2026" />
      <abstract>
	 <t>   This document describes operational requirements for exchanging
   network state in agent-assisted network operations.  In this
   document, an agent-assisted system is any automation or decision-
   support system that consumes operational state to support tasks such
   as anomaly triage, incident correlation, configuration verification,
   traffic engineering analysis, or attack mitigation support.  Such a
   system may use a large language model (LLM), a rule engine, a
   statistical model, or conventional software.

   The document focuses on operational problems created by high-volume
   telemetry, cross-domain state sharing, privacy constraints,
   approximate state summaries, and auditability of state used by
   automated workflows.  It identifies requirements for compact, scoped,
   mergeable, bounded-error, incrementally synchronized, and auditable
   network state artifacts.  The document complements existing NMOP work
   on anomaly detection, incident management, and YANG Push/message
   broker integration.  It does not define a new network management
   protocol, a new agent communication protocol, or a wire format.

	 </t>
      </abstract>
   </front>
   <seriesInfo name="Internet-Draft" value="draft-cui-nmop-agent-sketch-com-00" />
   
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