The IESG has concluded that this work is related to IETF work done in the ANIMA working group, but this relationship does not prevent publishing. This work was well underway when the ANIMA WG was created. As such, the ANIMA charter mentions: This work builds on definitions and design goals, as well as a simple architecture model undertaken in the Network Management Research Group (NMRG) of the IRTF (See draft-irtf-nmrg-an-gap-analysis and its companion draft-irtf-nmrg-autonomic-network-definitions).