Frank Brockners, Shwetha Bhandari, Carlos Pignataro (Cisco)
Hannes Gedler (rtbrick), Steve Youell (JPMC), John Leddy (Comcast)
David Mozes (Mellanox), Tal Mizrahi (Marvell), Petr Lapukhov (Facebook)
Remy Chang (Barefoot), Daniel Bernier (Bell Canada)


IETF 99 – IPPM; July 19th, 2017

Key updates between -03 (reviewed in Chicago) and -07 version

  • Added a section on scope of in-situ OAM, including
    • IOAM deployment domain
    • IOAM control points
    • Traffic sets IOAM is applied to
    • Encapsulation for IOAM
    • Layering aspects
    • Combination with other OAM mechanisms
  • Data fields updates
    • New data field to create a checksum-neutral packet
  • Document type change (experimental to standards track)
  • A lot of editorial updates (special thanks to Joe Clarke and Al Morton for detailed reviews)

Status and next steps

  • WG adoption of IOAM work
    • Positive outcome of WG adoption call on the list
    • draft-brockners-inband-oam-data-07 as starting point