6. Privacy Considerations

This section preserves the RFC text for network fault and problem management terminology, including Event, State, Fault, Problem, Symptom, Cause, Alert, Alarm, workflow figures, security, privacy, and IANA considerations.

6.  Privacy Considerations

   Network fault and problem management should preserve user privacy by
   not exposing user data or information about end-user activities.

   Network Telemetry involves observing network traffic and collecting
   operational data from the network, while Network Monitoring is the
   process of keeping records of data gathered in Network Telemetry.
   Therefore, it is possible that the data observed and collected
   includes users' privacy information.  Such information must be
   protected and controlled to avoid exposure to unauthorized parties.
   Particular care may need to be exercised over stores of such
   information that might be accessed at any time (including far into
   the future).

   Additionally, a network operator will be concerned about keeping
   control of all information about Faults to protect their own privacy
   and the details of how they operate their network.