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

[Benson Schliesser <[e-mail]>]

Hi, Stephane.

On 8/24/12 11:05 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>> A new IETF non-working group email list has been created.
>>
>> List address: [e-mail]
>> Archive: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/irs-discuss/
>> To subscribe: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/irs-discuss
> It really looks like very close from what the Forces working group
> have been doing. Can anyone explain why we need to start a new
> project?

At a high level, I think there is a different assumption about where the 
control-plane resides. In IRS the forwarding and control planes might be 
co-resident in the router (i.e. not "separated"), and the IRS protocol 
would be a way of extending limited control over routing state to 
external applications.

If I understand ForCES correctly (which is possibly not the case) then I 
imagine it could be used in a similar architecture and/or as a protocol 
layer for IRS. But the first step in the context of IRS is to make a 
problem statement, understand requirements, etc.

Others might have more intelligent comments, which I welcome. :) But 
please let me know if this perspective helps clarify things, and/or if 
I'm missing some ideas that I should understand better, etc.

Cheers,
-Benson