Liaison statement
Response to IETF NMOP on “Automated Intelligent Management (AIM)and Broadband Network Data Collection (BNDC)”

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State Posted
Submitted Date 2025-01-31
From Group BROADBAND-FORUM
From Contact Lincoln Lavoie
To Group nmop
To Contacts Mohamed Boucadair <mohamed.boucadair@orange.com>
Benoît Claise <benoit.claise@huawei.com>
Cc Network Management Operations Discussion List <nmop@ietf.org>
Dave Sinicrope <david.sinicrope@gmail.com>
Warren Kumari <warren@kumari.net>
Mohamed Boucadair <mohamed.boucadair@orange.com>
Benoît Claise <benoit.claise@huawei.com>
Mahesh Jethanandani <mjethanandani@gmail.com>
Purpose In response
Attachments LIAISE-687
Liaisons referred by this one IETF NMOP LS to BBF on Automated Intelligent Management (AIM), WT-508: Broadband Network Data Collection (BNDC)
Body 
Dear colleagues,

The Broadband Forum would like to thank IETF NMOP for the liaison received
regarding “Automated Intelligent Management (AIM) and Broadband Network Data
Collection (BNDC)”.

The Broadband Forum would like to inform IETF NMOP that the activity related to
data collection is just at beginning and it hasn’t been taken yet any decision
about possible protocols and data structures to be used. The Broadband Forum
will update IETF NMOP as soon as the Broadband Forum will have taken any
decision.

The latest draft version of the WT-508 “Broadband Network Data Collection
(BNDC)” is attached to this liaison. Please be aware that the document is still
under development and some parts are not completed or subject to changes and
others are missing. We will continue to update IETF NMOP as soon as will have
significant updates or changes of the document.

The scope of the document is the following, coming from project proposal:
• Architectural definition and description of the components of the Data
Collection solution. • Specification of interfaces between the components of
the Data Collection solution. • Consideration of BBF standard data objects, and
vendor specific extensions to determine how they best fit in this model with
little or no modification. • Main collection use cases: real-time, on-demand or
streaming telemetry, bulk collection, and adaptive DC driven by some predefined
strategies • Transfer protocols as suitable for different collection modes
(push, pull, bulk, streaming, pub/sub) • Specification of data encapsulation
mechanism(s) • Recommendations of preferred open-source tools The Broadband
Forum would be also very grateful if IETF NMOP continues to inform Broadband
Forum about the progress on the activities ongoing on data collection. The
Broadband Forum looks forward to a fruitful collaboration.

Sincerely,
Lincoln Lavoie,
Broadband Forum Technical Committee Chair

CC:
BBF Liaisons, <liaisons@broadband-forum.org>
Bruno Cornaglia, Broadband Forum SDN/NFV Work Area Co-Director
<bruno.cornaglia@vodafone.com> Mengmeng Li, Broadband Forum SDN/NFV Work Area
Co-Director <limengmeng@chinamobile.com> Haomian Zheng, Broadband Forum SDN/NFV
Work Area Co-Director <zhenghaomian@huawei.com> Lincoln Lavoie, Broadband Forum
Technical Committee Chair <lylavoie@iol.unh.edu> Craig Thomas, Broadband Forum
Managing Director <cthomas@broadband-forum.org> Karina Rocha-Gabbard, Broadband
Forum Member Support Manager <krocha@broadband-forum.org> IETF Liaisons
<statements@ietf.org> IETF Liaison Coordinator <bbf-liaison@ietf.org>

Broadband Forum Reference:
LIAISE-687

Attachment:
WT-508 “Broadband Network Data Collection (BNDC)” Revision 04, August 2024

Date of Upcoming Broadband Forum Meetings: A list of upcoming meetings can be
found at
https://www.broadband-forum.org/what-s-happening/meetings-events-webinars/upcoming-bbf-meetings