Subject: I-D Action:draft-ietf-opsawg-oam-overview-01.txt

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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 08:00:01 -0700 (PDT)

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	Title           : An Overview of Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) Mechanisms
	Author(s)       : T. Mizrahi
	Filename        : draft-ietf-opsawg-oam-overview-01.txt
	Pages           : 28
	Date            : 2010-07-12

Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) is a general term
that refers to detecting and reporting link failures. OAM mechanisms
have been defined for various layers in the protocol stack, and are
used with a variety of protocols.

This document presents an overview of the OAM mechanisms that have
been defined and are currently being defined by the IETF, as well as
a comparison to other OAM mechanisms that have been defined by the
IEEE and ITU-T.

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