Subject: [Anima] New Liaison Statement, "Liaison Statement to IETF regarding Comments on ANIMA WG charter from ETSI NTECH AFI and suggested synergies and collaboration"

From: Liaison Statement Management Tool <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 13:37:47 -0800

Title: Liaison Statement to IETF regarding Comments on ANIMA WG charter from ETSI NTECH AFI and suggested synergies and collaboration
Submission Date: 2014-11-25
URL of the IETF Web page: http://datatracker.ietf.org/liaison/1365/
Please reply by 2014-12-15
From: ETSI NTECH (Chantal Bonardi <[email-masked]>)
To: Autonomic Networking Integrated Model and Approach (Toerless Eckert <[email-masked]>, Sheng Jiang <[email-masked]>)
Cc: Benoit Claise <[email-masked]>,Joel Jaeggli <[email-masked]>,[email-masked],[email-masked]
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Purpose: For comment

Body: We hereby propose ideas on IETF related work that could be carried out par ANIMA WG to complement the work in ETSI NTECH/AFI WG on Evolution of Management towards Autonomic Future Internet (AFI) to prevent duplication of work and effort already undertaken by ETSI NTECH AFI for years. Supplementary details can be found in the Annexes. This input may be vital to IETF groups that are working on topics that are closely related to the work of ETSI NTECH/AFI WG.

1. Overall description: Comments on the ANIMA WG Charter

The ETSI NTECH AFI working group is aware that IETF recently created a new working group on autonomic networking named “ANIMA”. We reviewed the draft charter description for ANIMA and would like to provide a set of comments and suggestions on how the two groups could collaborate and complement each other.

2. Actions: Suggested synergies

2.1. IETF related work that could be carried out in IETF/ANIMA WG  to complement the work in ETSI NTECH/AFI WG

We think at least the following collaboration topics should be of high interest to both parties:

• The process of analysis of requirements for autonomic behaviors in networks, in management tasks and in network automation (in general) in order to design autonomic functions and associated communications on the basis of instantiation of the GANA model [1] onto target reference architecture, requires answers to questions such as: 
• What protocols (could be IETF protocols) can be used by the instantiated of GANA Functional Blocks (FBs) on the reference points of the FBs to communicate and to convey data/information 
• In the target environment, are there protocols that already exist and could be used as the vehicles 
• to communicate the FBs messages and data/information on the reference points, or should new IETF protocol(s) be designed for that? 
• What messages, data format and control semantics should the FBs communicate to implement the requirements for autonomic behavior and/or automation in general
• Are special IETF protocols required to be introduced?

Those questions imply that IETF protocols and solutions can be introduced to address them. This may lead to a number of ANIMA WG drafts being introduced. The requirements analysis is an ongoing process in ETSI NTECH/AFI, and the outcome can feed input to such ANIMA WG related activities.

• ETSI NTECH/AFI has produced a Technical Specification (recently published) [2] [3] on Scenarios, Use Cases and Requirements for Autonomic/Self-Managing Future Internet. ANIMA WG experts can also perform analysis of those scenarios, use cases and related requirements for autonomic behaviors, in order to derive ANIMA WG  based solutions to addressing such requirements.

 2.2. Workshops and Tutorials

ETSI NTECH/AFI welcomes the idea of co-organizing workshops or can be invited to meetings where they can give a tutorial on  AFI work on Autonomic Networking related Specifications, such as the AFI GANA Reference Model for Autonomic Networking, Cognitive Networking and Self-Management, and its instantiations onto various reference architectures toward autonomics-enabled networks, e.g. during IETF events. For example, ETSI NTECH/AFI does co-organize workshops with ITU-T SG13, SG2 and SG15, and also with other Multi-SDOs/Fora.

Thank you,
Looking forward to progressing to the next level of our collaboration,

ETSI NTECH AFI Working Group
Attachments:

    Liaison Statement to IETF regarding Comments  on ANIMA WG charter from ETSI NTECH AFI and suggested synergies and collaboration
    https://datatracker.ietf.org/documents/LIAISON/liaison-2014-11-25-etsi-ntech-anima-liaison-statement-to-ietf-regarding-comments-on-anima-wg-charter-from-etsi-ntech-afi-and-suggested-synergies-and-c-attachment-1.pdf