Re: [irs-discuss] An idea ... MTR + IRS

Oh, I meant in Nitin's description in the mailing list, there are 3 sub-layers of a orchestrator.
Top layer: Northboundapi
Middle layer: IRS
Bottom layer: topo export

Therefore, the topo export is not part of IRS. It is another layer which sits below IRS.

Tina

On Aug 7, 2012, at 5:30 PM, "Alia Atlas" <akatlas@gmail.com> wrote:

> Topology export is definitely under the umbrella of IRS - and we are
> actively starting to think about the associated requirements and
> use-cases.   Feel free to contribute - on the list or towards drafts!
> 
> Alia
> 
> On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 6:23 PM, Tina TSOU <Tina.Tsou.Zouting@huawei.com> wrote:
>> Nitin said topo information export is on the sub-layer under IRS.
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>> Tina
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>> From: irs-discuss-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:irs-discuss-bounces@ietf.org] On
>> Behalf Of Edward Crabbe
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2012 3:20 PM
>> To: robert@raszuk.net
>> Cc: irs-discuss@ietf.org
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>> 
>> Subject: Re: [irs-discuss] An idea ... MTR + IRS
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>> Robert,
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>> If topo information export is in scope (which I believe it is) and PBR route
>> injection with nh recursion to rib (and thus connected routes) is in scope
>> (which I'm quite sure it is) then yes, this is in scope.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Although I'm not sure what it has to do with OF /OF controllers? ;P
>> 
>> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Robert Raszuk <robert@raszuk.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> This morning Scott mentioned that he would like to use IRS to shut down all
>> protocols and just be able to write to RIB. Now James said that he would
>> like to get a network topology as "every OpenFlow controller requires this"
>> 
>> Both connected together resulted in an idea of using multi-topology-routing
>> where your base topology discovers physical link connectivity graph while
>> other topologies could be programmed by external entities example: OF
>> controllers or any other external to routers network intelligence oracles to
>> deliver actual services ?
>> 
>> Would that be in scope of IRS effort ? If so what would be the proposed
>> "write to RIB" set of protocols ? Would you support OF 1.3 even if one would
>> be happy to lock such topologies only to software/programmable switching
>> paths ?
>> 
>> Best rgs,
>> R.
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