This Recommendation provides a description of the autonomic operations support protocols in the Internet of things (IoT) based on the architecture of the IoT specified in Recommendation ITU-T Y.4416, in order to support provisioning of autonomic operation capabilities specified in Recommendation ITU-T Y.4401. It describes architecture of autonomic operations support protocols in the IoT, autonomic event management support protocol, autonomic control support protocol, and autonomic policy management support protocol in the IoT. Possible deployment and relevant use cases of these autonomic operations support protocols in the IoT are described.