{"draft":"draft-ietf-opsawg-operations-and-management-09","doc_id":"RFC5706","title":"Guidelines for Considering Operations and Management of New Protocols and Protocol Extensions","authors":["D. Harrington"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"35","pub_status":"INFORMATIONAL","status":"INFORMATIONAL","source":"Operations and Management Area Working Group","abstract":"New protocols or protocol extensions are best designed with due\r\nconsideration of the functionality needed to operate and manage the\r\nprotocols.  Retrofitting operations and management is sub-optimal.\r\nThe purpose of this document is to provide guidance to authors and\r\nreviewers of documents that define new protocols or protocol\r\nextensions regarding aspects of operations and management that should\r\nbe considered.  This memo provides information for the Internet community.","pub_date":"November 2009","keywords":["management","operations"],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":[],"updated_by":[],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC5706","errata_url":null}