Burt just raised this expired draft in the IETF policy working group. He is intending to make this an Informational RFC... so, if folks think this is important, they might want to comment to Burt &/or the Authors. ------------------------------------------------------ Requirements for Configuration Management of IP-based networks ... 1.1 Motivation, Scope and Goals of this document Over the past several months, a number of IETF working groups have introduced new technologies which offer integrated and differentiated services. To support these new technologies, working group members found that they had new requirements for configuration of these technologies. One of these new requirements was for the provisioning (configuration) of behavior at the network level ... -- --bill