On 12 May 2015 at 16:19, Robert Drake <[email protected]> wrote: > Like the "Automated Copyright Notice System" (http://www.acns.net/spec.html) > except I don't think they went through any official standards body besides > their own MPAA, or whatever. > > I get circuits from several vendors and get maintenance notifications from > them all the time. Each has a different format and each supplies different > details for their maintenance. Most of the time there are core things that > everyone wants and it would be nice if it were automatically readable so > automation could be performed (i.e., our NOC gets the email into our > ticketing system. It is recognized as being part of an existing maintenance > due to maintenance id# (or new, whatever) and fields are automatically > populated or updated accordingly. > > If you're uncomfortable with the phrase "automatically populated > accordingly" for security reasons then you can replace that with "NOC > technician verifies all fields are correct and hits update ticket." or > whatever. > > The main fields I think you would need: > > 1. Company Name > 2. Maintenance ID > 3. Start Date > 4. Expected length > 5. Circuits impacted (if known or applicable) > 6. Description/Scope of Work (free form) > 7. Ticket Number > 8. Contact >
I'm behind you although this would be a BCOP and not an RFC really. Check out: http://bcop.nanog.org/index.php/Main_Page and http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/projects/bcop/ Cheers, James.

