Re: [Casm] Which interfaces does CASM plan on standardizing?

Hi Chongfeng,
>
> Hi, Benoit,
>
>       Thank you for your encouragement :-)
>
>       Yes, we  hope that the work in 
> draft-sun-i2apm-address-pool-management-yang can be standardlized in 
> the future.    This draft got some support in OPSAWG when Dr. Qiong 
> Sun prensented it in Yokohama meeting.  Of course, new suggestions or 
> efforts to improve it will be appreciated.
I see that 
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-sun-casm-address-pool-management-yang/ 
has just been posted.
Is this is an exact copy of 
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-sun-i2apm-address-pool-management-yang-02, 
or are there any improvements?

Regards, Benoit
> Thank you!
>
> Chongfeng
>
>
>
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> xiechf.bri@chinatelecom.cn
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>     *发件人：* Benoit Claise <mailto:bclaise@cisco.com>
>     *发送时间：* 2017-03-01 04:47
>     *收件人：* Xie Chongfeng <mailto:xiechf.bri@chinatelecom.cn>; Brian E
>     Carpenter <mailto:brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>;
>     marc.blanchet@viagenie.ca <mailto:marc.blanchet@viagenie.ca>;
>     CASM@ietf.org <mailto:CASM@ietf.org>
>     *抄送：* lichen.bri@chinatelecom.cn
>     <mailto:lichen.bri@chinatelecom.cn>; 'Liushucheng (Will)'
>     <mailto:liushucheng@huawei.com>; wanghn.bri@chinatelecom.cn
>     <mailto:wanghn.bri@chinatelecom.cn>;
>     draft-ietf-anima-prefix-management
>     <mailto:draft-ietf-anima-prefix-management@ietf.org>
>     *主题：* Re: [Casm] Which interfaces does CASM plan on standardizing?
>     Hi Chongfeng,
>>     Hi,  Carpenter，
>>
>>     It is nice to receive your comments.　
>>
>>     CASM and ANIMA differ with each otherin the following aspects.
>>
>>     Firstly, ANIMA is a self-managing in
>>     AUTONOMIC networking environment, the configurations to network elements
>>
>>     are mainly done by the network elements themselves. while in CASM, in order
>>
>>     to make the task easier, we propose the use centralizedserver or platform to do
>>
>>     the configuration task, of course, the server may be distributed physically.
>>
>>
>>
>>     Secondly, they have different use case, more the 3
>>     years ago, I had a long talk with Dr. Jiang Sheng in Beijing, and propose
>>
>>     that the IP RAN may be a suitable use case to ANIMA, although the name
>>
>>     didn't exist yet.  the primary use case for CASM is the address pool
>>     configuration for broadband IP network, CT has implemented the whole system
>>
>>     based on the current CASM　dratfs, and 3 vendors have joined the field test
>>
>>     last year. The field trial prove this approach can solve the issues we
>>
>>     are concernd with.
>>
>>     The detailed description of the interface is shown in,
>>     https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-sun-i2apm-address-pool-management-yang/
>     3 vendor implementations. Great. That's a lot of experience.
>     So the end goal is to standardize this
>     draft-sun-i2apm-address-pool-management-yang draft?
>     You had some support for this in OPSAWG for a WG document, if I
>     recall correctly...
>     Or maybe you learned from this development experience?
>
>     Regards, Benoit
>
>>
>>
>>     Thank you!
>>
>>     Chongfeng
>>
>>
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>>     xiechf.bri@chinatelecom.cn
>>
>>         *发件人：* Brian E Carpenter <mailto:brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
>>         *发送时间：* 2017-02-28 07:54
>>         *收件人：* Xie Chongfeng <mailto:xiechf.bri@chinatelecom.cn>;
>>         marc.blanchet@viagenie.ca <mailto:marc.blanchet@viagenie.ca>;
>>         bclaise <mailto:bclaise@cisco.com>; CASM@ietf.org
>>         <mailto:CASM@ietf.org>
>>         *抄送：* lichen.bri@chinatelecom.cn
>>         <mailto:lichen.bri@chinatelecom.cn>; 'Liushucheng (Will)'
>>         <mailto:liushucheng@huawei.com>; wanghn.bri@chinatelecom.cn
>>         <mailto:wanghn.bri@chinatelecom.cn>;
>>         draft-ietf-anima-prefix-management
>>         <mailto:draft-ietf-anima-prefix-management@ietf.org>
>>         *主题：* Re: [Casm] Which interfaces does CASM plan on
>>         standardizing?
>>         Hi Chongfeng,
>>         > Network operation team needs configure manaually IP address
>>         pool in each
>>         > BRAS/vBRAS
>>         Obviously that is a hopeless task. That's exactly why this is one
>>         of the test cases for ANIMA. So can you please comment on the
>>         level of detail needed in that interface? Is it similar to
>>         https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-anima-prefix-management-02#section-6.1
>>         That is an example for an IPRAN operator.
>>         Note, I'm not asking about technical details - just about the
>>         level of abstraction.
>>         Regards
>>            Brian Carpenter
>>         On 16/02/2017 03:09, Xie Chongfeng wrote:
>>         >
>>         > Hi，Benoit and all,
>>         >
>>         > This subject was originally raised by China Telecom, our
>>         use case is clear and straightforward. In CT's network, there
>>         are tens of thousands of BRAS equipments，which are the major
>>         gateway to the broadband users. When the vBRAS was
>>         introduced, the volume will be even higher. Network operation
>>         team needs configure manaually IP address pool in each
>>         > BRAS/vBRAS, which are time-consuming and low -efficient.
>>         Can DHCP solve this problem? The answer is NO, since DHCP
>>         deals with address allocation for end users.
>>         >
>>         > In order to autimate the configuration process and improve
>>         the IP adress usage, a centralized address pool managment
>>         approach may be more reasonable. We discucssed with verdors
>>         and carriers, we found that there have been some
>>         proprioritary inplementations, they differ in the south-bound
>>         interface, so  we propose to standardize the south-bound
>>         interface in the early stage, which will benefit to all the
>>         players.
>>         >
>>         > Since the requirements are pressing to CT, we begun the
>>         filed trial last year and 3 vendors have implementated the
>>         interface defined in
>>         draft-sun-i2apm-address-pool-management-yang, luckily they
>>         all passed the field test by our joint efforts.
>>         >
>>         > As mentioned in other drafts of CASM, the address
>>         management capability will be  opened to other
>>         applications,such as SDN and Cloud , the north-bound
>>         interface will be standanized as well.
>>         >
>>         > Of course, in order to define the interface and its
>>         relatvie workflow, a unified framwork or architecture will
>>         need to be defined in advance.
>>         >
>>         > Thank you!
>>         >
>>         > Chongfeng Xie
>>         >
>>         >
>>         >
>>         >
>>         >
>>         >
>>         > xiechf.bri@chinatelecom.cn
>>         >
>>         > From: Marc Blanchet
>>         > Date: 2017-02-14 20:24
>>         > To: Rakesh Kumar
>>         > CC: Liushucheng; Xie Chongfeng
>>         > Subject: Re: IPAM design from microsoft
>>         > will look into it. were you able to get Bloomsberg or else
>>         to support the work?
>>         > Marc.
>>         > On 14 Feb 2017, at 6:57, Rakesh Kumar wrote:
>>         > HI,
>>         >
>>         > I found a very good document on the web from Microsoft
>>         about IPAM. This is good document that explains some of the
>>         concept we have listed in the drafts.
>>         > I thought, you guys might want to take a look at this for
>>         your reference.
>>         >
>>         > Thanks & Regards
>>         > Rakesh
>>         >
>>         >
>>         >
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