Re: [homenet] appropriateness of draft-shytyi-opsawg-vysm-03 to homenet WG?

[Alexandre Petrescu <[e-mail]>]

Le 17/09/2019 à 15:34, Ted Lemon a écrit :
> On Sep 17, 2019, at 9:29 AM, Alexandre Petrescu 
> <[e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>>
> wrote:
>> Thanks for the reply.  As I do not author the draft, and my
>> colleague is not subscribed to this list, I paste here his reply to
>> your question:
>> 
>>> It is not really clear if the draft is appropriate to the homenet
>>> wg. One can state that this draft presents a tool/solution
>>> (service yang model) for orchestator to manage the different uCPE
>>> equipment. uCPE eqipment is not regular cpe/homenet device. uCPE
>>> is a host that hosts guest OSs. uCPE is like PC with virtualbox 
>>> where the VMs are running (VMs such as homenet router,cisco
>>> router, firewall, SD-WAN.)
> 
> Thanks.   The question I would ask here is, is it intended that this
>  uCPE integrate into a multi-subnet, multi-homed homenet?

Temporary speaking for my colleague, this is what he has to say to the 
question:

> If we are talking, for example, about several IPv6 prefixes that are
> learned from muliple ISPs I could suggest that uCPE is transparent in
> this case. On the figure below we can see that uCPE connects 2 PHY
> ports via virtual Links to the Virtual Ports of VNF. So it is the
> VNF(vRouter) that is doing the job. There is example where the
> constructor of equipment merges the uCPE NFVIs with router (i find it
> as a very particular case).
> 
> If we are talking about implementation of babel in the uCPE please
> check the figure below. I suppose it is a vRouter that will have this
> functionality (not uCPE NFVIs).
> 
> P.S. There is a management of NFVIs that maybe could be integrated.
> But it is a question if there is an interest to do that.

            +--------------------------------+
            |uCPE                            |
            |                                |
            |                 +--------+     |
            |           |-----|vRouter |-----|----WAN1
LAN1 ------|----|      |     +--------+     |
            |    |      |          |         |
            |    |      |          |         |
LAN2 ------|----|------|          |---------|----WAN2
            |    |                           |
            |    |                           |
LAN3 ------|----|                           |
            |                                |
            |                                |
            +--------------------------------+