Introduction

The IAB organized a workshop in June 2002 to establish a dialog between network operators and protocol developers, and to guide IETF when working on network management protocols. The outcome of that workshop was documented in the "Overview of the 2002 IAB Network Management Workshop" [RFC3535] which identified 14 operator requirements for consideration in future network management protocol design and related data models, along with some recommendations for the IETF.

Those requirements were instrumental in developing first the NETCONF protocol (in the NETCONF Working Group) [RFC6241], the associated YANG data modeling language (in the NETMOD Working Group) [RFC7950], RESTCONF [RFC8040], and most recently CORECONF [I-D.ietf-core-comi].

It has been more than 20 years since that IAB workshop, and it is time to evaluate what has been achieved since the original workshop and what recommendations and requirements have changed or still need to be addressed. This new workshop aims to discuss the following key topics:

• Review the outcomes and results of the 2002 workshop (current deployments, state of the art) and identify any operational barriers that prevent these technologies from being widely implemented (limitations, hurdles).
• Sketch new requirements for future network management operations in a collaborative manner with the industry, network operators, and protocol engineers.
• Develop a plan of action and recommendations for the IETF.

For full details, please see the workshop's Datatracker page.