Intent in« Realizing the Closed Loop Automation »
Last week, I had the pleasure to present a keynote on “Intent in « Realizing the Closed Loop Automation » in the 5th International Workshop on Intent-Based Networking (WIN’2025), organized by the […]
IPFIX 25 Years Anniversary… and a Second Life These Days!
This summer will mark the IPFIX 25 years anniversary, the famous IP Flow Information eXport protocol. The first flow-related BoF (Birds of a Feather) took place in London in summer […]
Knowledge Graph as Preparation for LLMs, the Logical Next Step in Networking Data Modeling!
While the LLMs will become commodities, and therefore will come and go (do I need to mention DeepSeek these days, or you have been living in a cave lately?), what […]
IETF/IAB Workshop on the Next Era of NEtwork Management OPerationS (NEMOPS)
UPDATE: here is the link to the operator survey! UPDATE: deadline extended till 17 November 2024 The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), founded in 1986, is the premier standards development […]
IETF Rough Consensus and Running Code
Back from an intensive IETF week (actually 2 days of hackathon during the week-end followed by the actual IETF week), it’s time to reflect! Maybe less participants on site, but […]
Brand New IETF Working Group: Network Management Operations (NMOP)
One paragraph summary (TL;DR) of this blog: there is a new cool NMOP just working group just created, with 4 important operational topics (YANG-Push & Kafka, anomaly detection and incident […]
YANG-Push & Apache Kafka Integration
For a couple of IETF meetings, the initiative around “YANG-Push & Kafka integration” has been growing and growing, over the last few IETFs there have been packed-room side meetings on […]
SRv6 IPFIX Flow Monitoring with RFC9487
If you are a network engineer, you should know about Segment Routing and in particular Segment Routing version 6 (SRv6). If you have been living in a cave for a […]
Digital Map Modelling: IETF 117 Latest Developments
Back from a successful IETF 117 in San Francisco, where the (hallway) discussions were as interesting and intense as the pre-COVID meetings. Let me share some news regarding the Digital […]
Service Assurance For Intent-based Network: Two New IETF Standards Approved!
It’s obvious that networks become more and more complex these days … for a “network” definition that encompasses: the network itself, the cloud, the application and the end user environment, […]