@techreport{cui-nmop-agent-sketch-com-00,
    number =    {draft-cui-nmop-agent-sketch-com-00},
    type =      {Internet-Draft},
    institution =   {Internet Engineering Task Force},
    publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force},
    note =      {Work in Progress},
    url =       {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-cui-nmop-agent-sketch-com/00/},
    author =    {Yong Cui and Mingzhe Xing and Lei Zhang},
    title =     {{Operational Requirements for Network State Exchange in Agent-Assisted Network Operations}},
    pagetotal = 16,
    year =      2026,
    month =     jul,
    day =       3,
    abstract =  {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.},
}