[Ideas] draft-padma-ideas-problem-statement and "Common Infrastructure"

[Robert Moskowitz <[e-mail]>]

Disclaimer:  I had a hand in edits to this version, though I am not 
listed in the Ack section.  In particular I pushed for "Common 
Infrastructure", not "Common Control Plane".


We have been talking a lot about Identity and Identifier and metadata.  
One of the tasks of this workgroup (and charter item) needs to be data 
modeling of what is intended to be stored/available.

Further there needs to be Yet Another Gap Analysis (YAGA?  :) ) on why 
NOT LDAP or some other mature xyz data store access protocol.  I start 
with LDAP as there is actually a fit, and the various server 
implementations are very mature with good, secure, backends and data 
replication tools.

It is time to start thinking charter.  The problem statement, gap 
analysis, and use cases is barely a start.  What the group is going to 
DO is focus now.

So I propose two work items:

Common Infrastructure data modeling (and someone other than me can do it 
in YANG).
Common Infrastructure protocol requirements with a subsection on LDAP 
comparision.

Bob