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, […]
YANG Push + Apache Kafka + Semantic = Network Visibility for Analytics
To solve the next challenge of autonomous networks, it’s not sufficient to configure YANG data models, it’s not sufficient to stream telemetry, it’s important to solve the issue and to […]
IETF Hackathon: SRv6 IPFIX Flow Monitoring
Just back from the IETF 115 in London last week. While the previous two IETF meetings in Vienna and in Philly were kind of “tentative” physical meetings in the post-COVID […]
Data Mesh Principles in the Networking World
The “Data Mesh” concepts are discussed in many different places recently, so I decided to read the “Data Mesh: Delivering Data-driven Value at Scale” reference book, by Zhamak Dehghani. “This […]
Exposing Routers Capabilities during Design and Implementation Times
Network automation is important, as I’ve been stressing for years. See for example this blog: “Automation is as good as your data models, their related metadata, your toolchain, and what you […]