@techreport{medved-irs-topology-requirements-00,
	number =	{draft-medved-irs-topology-requirements-00},
	type =		{Internet-Draft},
	institution =	{Internet Engineering Task Force},
	publisher =	{Internet Engineering Task Force},
	note =		{Work in Progress},
	url =		{https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-medved-irs-topology-requirements-00},
        author =	{Jan Medved and Hannes Gredler and Stefano Previdi and Shane Amante},
	title =		{{Topology API Requirements}},
	pagetotal =	14,
	year =		2012,
	month =		oct,
	day =		9,
	abstract =	{This document describes requirements for collecting topology data from network elements and other sources, creating a coherent view of the network topology from the collected data, and presenting the topology view to various applications that need to: a) understand the topology; and, b) interact/change the topology of the physical or logical network. for reflecting changes to the topology back in network elements..},
}