Re: [forces] item #9: Openflow Relationship

[Jamal Hadi Salim <[e-mail]>]

Chair hat off.
For the record, we have been implementing (at least vetting the control to
data path messaging and state maintainance of the Evangelos et al draft
as part of regular regressions we do). So #a-#c from this side.

cheers,
jamal

On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 6:48 AM, Jamal Hadi Salim <[e-mail]> wrote:
> [I know it is still slow week - but we gotta complete going
> over these suggested work items]
>
> What it is
> ----------
> Illustration of OpenFlow to ForCES relationship.
> Refer to:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-hares-forces-vs-openflow/
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-haleplidis-forces-openflow-lib/
>
> Why this is needed:
> -------------------
> OF has taken the industry by a storm and has shaped the SDN
> world. ForCES has been doing SDN for years.
> It is of informational  value to compare and contrast ForCES with
> OF.
> It is is of informational value to show that ForCES can be used in
> conjunction or in place of OF.
> It is valuable as well to learn technically from OF on how we could
> add missing useful features to ForCES.
>
> Please respond whether you:
> a) are interested in doing the work
> b) will review the work
> c) find the work interesting and it should be done in the WG
> d) do not think we should do this work
>
> cheers,
> jamal