Technical Summary:
The TRILL protocol current supports SNMP and BFD but those provide
only limited OAM facilities. This document is the first in a planned
series of documents to provide more complete OAM facilities. It
gives requirements for those OAM facilities and is expected to be
followed by an OAM Framework document (currently a TRILL WG draft)
which is in turn expected to be followed by two detailed
specifications: Fault Management (current a personal draft) and
Performance Management (no draft posted at this time). While the
current direction of TRILL OAM is to parallel IEEE 802.1ag, this
requirement document is general independent of OAM technology and
does not constrain that direction.
Working Group Summary:
This document originated in the TRILL OAM design team. It was
adopted by a strong consensus and reviewed by the WG. Changes were
made based on review in the working group and there was a good
consensus to forward it for publication.
Document Quality:
There is significant vendor interest in more complete OAM facilities
for TRILL. This document has been thoroughly reviewed. It was
originated in the TRILL OAM design team and has also been reviewed
by a number of IEEE 802.1 voting members who volunteered to do so in
their individual capacity. In addition, it was closely reviewed
several times by Thomas Narten, a former Internet Area Director.
Personnel:
The Document Shepherd is Donald Eastlake. The Responsible Area
Director is Ralph Droms.