Re: [irs-discuss] IRS Problem Statement Posted

Robert Raszuk <robert@raszuk.net> Mon, 30 July 2012 23:31 UTC

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Subject: Re: [irs-discuss] IRS Problem Statement Posted
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Tom,

Yes indeed .. Clearly defining what problem are you trying to solve would be greatly helpful.

Best,
R.


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On Jul 30, 2012, at 3:54 PM, Thomas Nadeau <tnadeau@lucidvision.com> wrote:

> 
> On Jul 30, 2012:3:39 PM, at 3:39 PM, "Joel M. Halpern" <jmh@joelhalpern.com> wrote:
> 
>> Alia, I do have to disagree with one aspect of your characterization fo ForCES.  While the initial design goal was forwarding behavior, the protocol design is such that it is usable over a broad range of abstraction levels.
>> 
>> Similarly, depending upon exactly what we need, netconf + Netmad/YANG may be suitable / useable.
> 
>    We are not ruling out any existing solutions, either in whole or in part (modified). The goal right now is to define the problem space and a framework of components that can be used to solve that problem.
> 
>> On the other hand, I think that working out the problems and entities that need to be modeled first (which probably does need a dedicated working group), and then worrying about which protocol meets the requirements when we know what exactly we need.  At that point, the protocol work can be done wherever appropriate.
> 
>    Yes, that is precisely what the goals are right now.
> 
>    --Tom
> 
> 
>> 
>> yours,
>> Jitl
>> 
>> On 7/30/2012 6:27 PM, Alia Atlas wrote:
>>> Hi James,
>>> 
>>> Thanks for your thoughts.   Streaming (as I've heard) is not as good a
>>> description of the desired interface attributes as described in Sec
>>> 1.1, the functional overview.
>>> 
>>> IRS is NOT about having interfaces to the forwarding plane.  That's
>>> what ForCES is focused on.   This is about communication to a router
>>> to install/retrieve routing state into the routing system (FIB, IGPs,
>>> BGP, RSVP-TE, etc.)   IRS is NOT splitting the control plane from the
>>> router.
>>> 
>>> Are you suggesting that ForCES should drastically expand its scope?
>>> 
>>> Before we start debating what and whether to expand existing
>>> protocols, I think we need a common understanding of the problem we're
>>> trying to solve and the related framework.
>>> 
>>> Alia
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 6:11 PM, James Kempf <james.kempf@ericsson.com> wrote:
>>>> I don't understand why streaming is specified in this draft. And I don't understand why this draft isn't put in the Forces framework. Forces is a framework explicitedly designed for device to controller communication. Its major drawback it that it is a framework with a hole in the middle, in that there are no specified devices. This draft would fill that hole.
>>>> 
>>>> I don't think it is necessary to have a problem statement for router state update. Forces has already established that splitting the control plane into a separate device is, in some cases, an attractive design option. So I think this should be submitted to the Forces working group, or, at least, recast in the Forces framework.
>>>> 
>>>>                jak
>>>> 
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: irs-discuss-bounces@ietf.org
>>>>> [mailto:irs-discuss-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Nadeau
>>>>> Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 11:18 AM
>>>>> To: irs-discuss@ietf.org
>>>>> Subject: [irs-discuss] IRS Problem Statement Posted
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Please review and discuss.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Tom, Alia, Ward
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://lucidvision.com/draft-atlas-irs-problem-statement-00.txt
>>>>> 
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