ANIMA Intent Policy and Format
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ANIMA WG Z. Du
Internet-Draft S. Jiang
Intended status: Informational Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd
Expires: August 18, 2017 J. Nobre
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
L. Ciavaglia
Alcatel Lucent
M. Behringer
Cisco Systems
February 14, 2017
ANIMA Intent Policy and Format
draft-du-anima-an-intent-05
Abstract
One of the goals of autonomic networking is to simplify the
management of networks by human operators. Intent Based Networking
(IBN) is a possible approach to realize this goal. With IBN, the
operator indicates to the network what to do (i.e. her intent) and
not how to do it. In the field of Policy Based Management (PBM), the
concept of intent is called a declarative policy. This document
proposes a refinement of the intent concept initially defined in
[RFC7575] for autonomic networks by providing a more complete
definition, a life-cycle, some use cases and a tentative format of
the ANIMA Intent Policy.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Requirements Language and Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Concept of ANIMA Intent Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. Intent Life Cycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
5. Use Cases for ANIMA Intent Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
6. Distribution of ANIMA Intent Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
7. Management of ANIMA Intent Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
8. Interpretation of ANIMA Intent Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
9. Uniform Format of the ANIMA Intent Policy . . . . . . . . . . 8
10. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
11. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
12. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
13. Change log [RFC Editor: Please remove] . . . . . . . . . . . 9
14. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
1. Introduction
One of the goals of autonomic networking is to simplify the
management of networks by human operators. Intent Based Networking
(IBN) is a possible approach to realize this goal. With IBN, the
operator indicates to the network what to do (i.e. her intent) and
not how to do it. In the field of Policy Based Management (PBM), the
concept of intent is called a declarative policy. This document
proposes a refinement of the intent concept initially defined in
[RFC7575] for autonomic networks by providing a more complete
definition, a life-cycle, some use cases and a tentative format of
the ANIMA Intent Policy.
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