The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Guidelines for Autonomic Service Agents' (draft-ietf-anima-asa-guidelines-07.txt) as Informational RFC
This document is the product of the Autonomic Networking Integrated Model and Approach Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Warren Kumari and Robert Wilton. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-anima-asa-guidelines/ Technical Summary The ANIMA WG has defined a set of mechanisms through its RFCs most of whom where released earlier in 2021. One key benefit of these mechanisms is to make it easier to develop and deploy network automation software agents on network devices. These agents are called "Autonomic Service Agents" (ASA). This simplification is achieved through the autonomic services offered by ANIMAs "Autonomic Networking Infrastructure" and its services provided to those ASA. This document gives an overview of the structure of ASA and guidance for its interaction mechanisms with those services. These functions are primarily service (objective) interactions with other ASA via the ANI GRASP protocol, use of the ANI's ACP for any other secure communication between ASA and ASA Lifecycles. Working Group Summary This document was worked on and improved by several members of the WG for a long time (Since Sep 2016) without being adopted because work on ASA and potocols/mechanisms for them was out of charter for a long time. Most issues where resolved during this time, which is why the document only needed to receive few revisions after being adopted by the WG when the charter allowed for it. Document Quality This document is of an architectural/design nature. It predates significant implementation experience. It does not discuss any protocols but primarily use of abstract service interfaces within a network device. A simple proof of concept of some of the aspects described in this document was done by Brian Carpenter (co-author) Personnel Document Shepherd: Toerless Eckert Responsible AD: Rob Wilton (OPS). _______________________________________________ Anima mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/anima
