IETF YANG-Push or Openconfig gRPC/gNMI?
Written by Thomas Graf, Paolo Lucente, and Benoit Claise. Back from the IETF 125 in Shenzhen, we wanted to take a moment to answer a recurring question in the world […]
Can we Trust an AI Agent (For Network Operations)? Let’s Start with the Basics
Trying to answer the famous “Can we trust an AI agent for network operations?” question, for which I have been dedicating more time recently, let’s start with some basics, can […]
Network States In A Kafka Topic, For Easy Consumption
YANG Message Keys for Message Broker Integration is a brand new IETF draft, with the great potential to ease network operations. In one sentence, it’s about a mechanism to define […]
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 […]