Technical Summary
The OAM requirements document describes requirements for user and data plane
operations and management for MPLS. These requirements have been gathered
from network operators who have extensive experience deploying MPLS networks,
similarly some of these requirements have appeared in other documents. This
draft specifies Operations and Management requirements for Multi-Protocol
Label Switching, as well as for applications of Multi-Protocol Label
Switching such as pseudowire voice and virtual private network services.
The OAM framework document desribes how data plane protocols can
be applied to operations and maintenance procedures for
Multi-Protocol Label Switching. The document is structured to
outline how Operations and Management functionality can be used to
assist in fault management, configuration, accounting, performance
management and security, commonly known by the acronym FCAPS.
Working Group Summary
The WG had a consensus on progressing this document.
Protocol Quality
The documents have been reviewed by Alex Zinin for the IESG and
by Dimitri Papadimitriou for the Routing Area directorat.