Device Discovery BOF (ddbof) Thursday, July 17 at 1300-1500 =============================== CHAIR: Ron da Silva AGENDA: Problem description (10 mins) TBD draft-marques-ddp-00.txt (10 mins) Pedro Marques LLDP (20 mins) Jim Burns Future steps (10 mins) DESCRIPTION: This meeting's purpose is to discuss what actions, if any, the IETF should take regarding the standardization of mechanisms that discover directly adjacent network nodes. Several proprietary solutions exist in this area. As such, network operators feel the need for an interoperable solution that covers the needs of IP network infrastructure nodes as well as layer 2 devices. Current efforts in this area by other standard bodies will be discussed, as well as the potential for collaboration with those efforts.