Is anyone working on an RFC for standardized maintenance notifications

Tue May 12 15:19:06 UTC 2015

Like the "Automated Copyright Notice System" 
(http://www.acns.net/spec.html) except I don't think they went through 
any official standards body besides their own MPAA, or whatever.

I get circuits from several vendors and get maintenance notifications 
from them all the time.  Each has a different format and each supplies 
different details for their maintenance.  Most of the time there are 
core things that everyone wants and it would be nice if it were 
automatically readable so automation could be performed (i.e., our NOC 
gets the email into our ticketing system. It is recognized as being part 
of an existing maintenance due to maintenance id# (or new, whatever) and 
fields are automatically populated or updated accordingly.

If you're uncomfortable with the phrase "automatically populated 
accordingly" for security reasons then you can replace that with "NOC 
technician verifies all fields are correct and hits update ticket." or 
whatever.

The main fields I think you would need:

1.  Company Name
2.  Maintenance ID
3.  Start Date
4.  Expected length
5.  Circuits impacted (if known or applicable)
6.  Description/Scope of Work (free form)
7.  Ticket Number
8.  Contact