[c-nsp] OIR Best Practices in Service Provider Networks

[Chris Costa]

I found some information on the nsp list about 6500 series OIR 
experiences:
http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/2005-April/019329.html

This information, along with our own successful OIR experiences will 
allow us to move this process on this platform to a "non-interruptive" 
maintenance window.  I'd like to know what experiences others have had 
w/ 6500 OIR, and also what are some of the "best practices" followed by 
Service Provider networks in supporting OIR across their network.  Are 
you using vendor defined specifications to identify whether this 
function is or is not service impacting, or do you baseline a certain 
number of OIR instances during "interruptive" maintenance windows 
before claiming this is non-impacting?

Thanks for your input.

Chris Costa

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Chris Costa
CENIC Network Engineering