Re: [irs-discuss] [forces] New Non-WG Mailing List: irs-discuss -- Interface to The Internet Routing System (IRS)

Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@mojatatu.com> Mon, 27 August 2012 11:42 UTC

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Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 07:42:28 -0400
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Subject: Re: [irs-discuss] [forces] New Non-WG Mailing List: irs-discuss -- Interface to The Internet Routing System (IRS)
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With apologies to Alia, I feel obligated to feed this discussion ;->

On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 7:22 AM, Susan Hares <susan.hares@huawei.com> wrote:
> Benson:
>
> Forces is looking between the control plane and the data forwarding plane.
>The IRS work is focused on contacting between a control program and the routing process on the routing >control plane.
>

In my view:
IRS may provide an API or abstraction that looks like a routing sockets or
netlink_route (refer to section 3.1 and 3.2 of RFC 3549), underneath
the implementation maybe indeed ForCES.

cheers,
jamal