Getting Ready for Energy-Efficient Networking (GREEN)
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Document Type Approved BOF request
Title Getting Ready for Energy-Efficient Networking (GREEN)
Last updated 2024-06-20
State Approved
Editor Marisol Palmero
Responsible leadership Mahesh Jethanandani
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Name: Getting Ready for Energy-Efficient Networking (GREEN)

Description

As the desire to improve energy efficiency gains momentum, network operators increasingly focus on understanding energy consumption by different links, nodes, and devices/components within their networks. Network Energy-efficiency management involves deploying and managing network infrastructures with the goals of optimizing energy use on network devices while improving network utilization. This will involve technologies to monitor energy consumption, evaluate the effectiveness of energy saving polices, use control strategies to improve energy efficiency in network operations.

This BoF is intended to discuss these objectives and determine whether there is a community of interest to work on these topics within the IETF through a new working group (provisionally called GREEN).

The BoF discussion should identify a suite of short-term deliverables aimed at enhancing energy efficiency within networks. Key objectives include standardizing terms and definitions for energy metrics, and YANG models for reporting energy consumption usage and performing energy management. Additionally, the group could create a applicability statement to describe the effective collection and utilization of these metrics and attributes. The proposed approach is to tackle energy efficiency challenges in a systematic and incremental manner, focusing on practical building blocks that contribute to overarching energy efficiency goals.

Required Details

  • Status: WG Forming
  • Responsible AD: Mahesh Jethanandani
  • Chairs: Jari Arkko, Adrian Farrell
  • BOF proponents: Emile Stephan(emile.stephan@orange.com), Marisol Palmero(mpalmero@cisco.com), Qin Wu(bill.wu@huawei.com), Tony Li(tony.li@tony.li), Luis M. Contreras(luismiguel.contrerasmurillo@telefonica.com)
  • Number of people expected to attend: 150
  • Length of session: 2 hours
  • Conflicts (whole Areas and/or WGs)
    • Chair Conflicts:
      • MUST avoid: ANRW, SCONEPRO, EBPF, ISOPEN, CATS, TEAS, NMOP, and OPSAWG
      • SHOULD avoid: MPLS, PCE, Routing Area Open, IVY, SRv6OPS, CCAMP
    • Technology Overlap: OPS Area,
    • Key Participant Conflict: MPLS, TVR, RTGWG, LSR, 6man

Information for IAB/IESG

To allow evaluation of your proposal, please include the following items:

  • Any protocols or practices that already exist in this space:
  • Which (if any) modifications to existing protocols or practices are required:
    • Approaches are likely to use NETCONF/RESTCONF/CORECONF and YANG.
  • Which (if any) entirely new protocols or practices are required:
    • None identified so far.
  • Open source projects (if any) implementing this work:
    • None identified so far.

Agenda

BoF Agenda Proposal