OAM for flows

Continuing my coverage of the recent joint IESG/IAB design team on OAM, this time I want to discuss the issue of OAM for flows in Packet Switched Networks (PSNs).From a pure topology standpoint any communications network is imply a set of source ports (i.e., interfaces into which we may input information), a set of destination ports (i.e., interfaces from which we may receive information), and a