There is an increased drive by operators for integration and real
deployment which highlights new issues and problems with individual
network management protocols and models, or the wider integration of
those.  Some of these problems are witnessed only when trying to manage
large scale networks, e.g., due to the increased complexity and handling
large volumes of data exported in frequent updates.  At the same time,
simplifying the network management and operations, with increased
automation, is a high priority.

The goals of the Network Management Operations working group are to
solicit input from network operators to identify near term operational
issues arising from the deployment of network management technologies,
to determine potential solutions or workarounds for those issues.  Those
operational issues may relate to deployments of existing network
management technologies or the integration of related technologies for
network management and telemetry.

Since the focus is on helping solve problems faced by operators,
discussion is not solely limited to network management technologies
standardized within the IETF.  Solving those operational issues require
discussion, investigation, and potentially some experiments, which may
take some time, however the working group will focus on pragmatic items
achievable in a short timeframe over long term architectural visions.

The Network Management Operations working group is scoped, in order of
highest priority, to:

 * Present and discuss operational issues faced by deployment of network
   management technologies.
 
 * Incubate ideas and short term experiments on improving network
   management operations. Any experiments should focus on incremental
   improvements that can be achieved within 1-2 years.

 * Discuss network operator use cases and requirements for solving
   anticipated network management problems.

 * Informally engage with developers of open-source software to help
   drive adoption and improve protocol maturity of IETF network
   management standards.

 * Implement small protocol enhancements to help facilitate deployment,
   subject to the following constraints:

   * Protocol extensions for protocols in scope for existing working
     groups must be taken to those working groups unless there is an
     agreement by the working group’s responsible area director and the
     Operations/Management area director to progress the enhancement
     within this working group.

   * More significant protocol work (on existing or new protocols) is
     out of scope for this working group and must be done in another
     existing or new WG.

 * Describe and document operational experience and best practice.


Agenda time should be balanced between presentations and discussions of
operator issues and experience, and other potential work within scope
for the working group.  The expectation is that the working group will
have fewer presentation slots with more time given over to discussion
and comments over reported progress.  The working group chairs will
agree the topics and agenda time with the responsible area director,
with an expectation that priority will be given to operator
presentations.

If there is consensus to focus on particular problems or issues, then
the charter need not be updated, but those topics must be agreed with
the responsible area director, and milestones added to track the current
work.