@misc{rfc8994,
    series =    {Request for Comments},
    number =    8994,
    howpublished =  {RFC 8994},
    publisher = {RFC Editor},
    doi =       {10.17487/RFC8994},
    url =       {https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8994},
    author =    {Toerless Eckert and Michael H. Behringer and Steinthor Bjarnason},
    title =     {{An Autonomic Control Plane (ACP)}},
    pagetotal = 128,
    year =      2021,
    month =     may,
    abstract =  {Autonomic functions need a control plane to communicate, which depends on some addressing and routing. This Autonomic Control Plane should ideally be self-managing and be as independent as possible of configuration. This document defines such a plane and calls it the "Autonomic Control Plane", with the primary use as a control plane for autonomic functions. It also serves as a "virtual out-of-band channel" for Operations, Administration, and Management (OAM) communications over a network that provides automatically configured, hop-by-hop authenticated and encrypted communications via automatically configured IPv6 even when the network is not configured or is misconfigured.},
}