Goals:

The OPSEC WG will document operational issues and best current practices 
with regard to network security. In particular, the working group will 
clarify the rationale of supporting current operational practice, 
addressing gaps in currently understood best practices and clarifying 
liabilities inherent in security practices where they exist.

Scope:

The scope of the OPSEC WG includes the protection and secure operation 
of the forwarding, control and management planes. Documentation of 
operational issues, revision of existing operational security practices 
documents and proposals for new approaches to operational challenges 
related to network security are in scope.

Method:

The work will result in the publication of informational or BCP RFCs. 
Taxonomy or problem statement documents may provide a basis for such 
documents.

Informational or Best Current Practices Documents

For each topic addressed, the working group will produce a document that
captures common practices related to secure network operation. This will 
be primarily based on operational experience. A document might convey:

* a threat or threats to be addressed

* current practices for addressing the threat

* protocols, tools and technologies extant at the time of writing that 
are used to address the threat

* the possibility that a solution does not exist within existing tools 
or technologies

Taxonomy and Problem Statement Documents

These are documents that describe the scope of particular operational 
security challenges or problem spaces without necessarily coming to 
conclusions or proposing solutions. Such a document might be the 
precursor to an informational or best current practices document.

While the principal input of the working group is operational experience 
and needs, the output should be directed towards providing guidance to 
the operators community, other working groups that develop protocols or 
the protocol development community.

Non-Goals:

The OPSEC WG is will not write or modify protocols. New protocol work 
must be addressed through a working group chartered for that work, or 
via one of the individual submission processes. The OPSEC WG may take on 
documents related to the practices of using such work.

Milestones

Done     - Complete Charter

Done     - First draft of Framework Document as Internet Draft

Done     - First draft of Standards Survey Document as Internet Draft

Done     - First draft of Packet Filtering Capabilities

Done     - First draft of Event Logging Capabilities

Done     - First draft of Network Operator Current Security Practices

Done     - First draft of In-Band management capabilities

Done     - First draft of Out-of-Band management capabilities

Done     - First draft of Configuration and Management Interface Capabilities

Done     - Submit Network Operator Current Security Practices to IESG

Dec 2012 - WG Adoption of 'BGP operations and security' document

Dec 2012 - WG Adoption of 'Network Reconnaissance in IPv6 Networks' document

Dec 2012 - WG Adoption of 'DHCPv6-Shield: Protecting Against Rogue DHCPv6 Servers' document

Dec 2012 - WG Adoption of 'Virtual Private Network (VPN) traffic leakages in dual-stack
           hosts/networks' document

Jan 2013 - WG Last Call for 'Operational Security Considerations for IPv6 Networks'
           document

Jan 2013 - WG Last Call for 'Recommendations for filtering ICMP messages' document

Jan 2013 - WG Last Call for 'Recommendations on filtering of IPv4 packets containing IPv4
           options' document

Jan 2013 - WG Last Call for 'Security Implications of IPv6 on IPv4 networks' document

Mar 2013 - WG Last Call for 'Using Only Link-Local Addressing Inside an IPv6 Network'
           document

Mar 2013 - Submit 'Recommendations for filtering ICMP messages' document to IESG

Mar 2013 - Submit 'Recommendations on filtering of IPv4 packets containing IPv4 options'
           document to IESG

Mar 2013 - Submit 'Operational Security Considerations for IPv6 Networks' document to IESG

Mar 2013 - Submit 'Recommendations for filtering ICMP messages' document to IESG

May 2013 - Submit 'Using Only Link-Local Addressing Inside an IPv6 Network' document to
           IESG

Jul 2013 - WG Last Call for 'BGP operations and security' document

Jul 2013 - WG Last Call for 'Network Reconnaissance in IPv6 Networks' document

Jul 2013 - WG Last Call for 'DHCPv6-Shield: Protecting Against Rogue DHCPv6 Servers'
           document

Jul 2013 - WG Last Call for 'Virtual Private Network (VPN) traffic leakages in dual-stack
           hosts/networks' document

Sep 2013 - Submit 'BGP operations and security' document to IESG

Sep 2013 - Submit 'Network Reconnaissance in IPv6 Networks' document to IESG

Sep 2013 - Submit 'DHCPv6-Shield: Protecting Against Rogue DHCPv6 Servers' document to IESG