Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments
Alia Atlas <akatlas@gmail.com> Wed, 15 August 2012 17:36 UTC
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From: Alia Atlas <akatlas@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments
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Want to write up a good clear definition to put in the problem-statement? I think that Chris Liljenstolpe is also working on that... Alia On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Edward Crabbe <edc@google.com> wrote: > +1 Alia. There's been a lot of confusion over this term. Having gone a few > rounds with folks on this one in other forums, I'll point out that what most > people mean by application (myself included) is some set of control software > (a scheduler, a path optimizer etc) that provides instructions to the > controller, which are in turn translated to the appropriate PDUs. > > Having 'end user' applications request/make changes to forwarding state > without an intermediate broker/aggregator acting on their behalf sounds like > a recipe for disaster for operational networks, or, as is more likely, a > quick hike to the protocol grave yard (followed by a long grave-side party > :P) for the wg. > > my 2c. > > On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Alia Atlas <akatlas@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi David, >> >> We do need to clarify what is meant by an application. I would not >> expect that real user-land applications would talk directly to routing >> devices via IRS. I can see that going through an intermediary. The >> IRS abstractions are unlikely to be as high-level as user-land >> applications would want and the security and policy issues would get >> exciting. >> >> Clarifying what applications are more in-scope initially is part of >> where use-cases will help. Can you write up ones to >> categorize/describe your thoughts? >> >> Alia >> >> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:40 AM, David Lake (dlake) <dlake@cisco.com> >> wrote: >> > As another newbie to this, I have some questions about "application >> > vendors." >> > >> > Who is the target audience here ? That will determine what >> > functionality and abstraction of the network we need to expose to that >> > "application." >> > >> > This presently appears to be a little confused - at least in my mind. >> > The draft talks very much as if the application we are addressing is an >> > OSS/BSS system, essentially provisioning from the domain owner. >> > >> > However, linking this to the wider goals of SDN as voiced by >> > customers/users at the first Open Network Summit, there appears to be a >> > desire for cross-domain and user-land application integration. >> > >> > At this level - as an example giving a content cache the ability to >> > ensure delivery of an HD video to an end user - the application will not be >> > interested in the underlying topology of the network; it will need to know >> > that application X can be delivered with parameters Y between reading from >> > the content store to delivery to the user's browser. How the stream >> > traverses the infrastructure is immaterial. >> > >> > Are we intending that IRS satisfies BOTH these requirements (i.e. for >> > ALL applications ?), or should we be more prescriptive about which >> > application space we are addressing ? >> > >> > Thanks >> > >> > David >> > >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: irs-discuss-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:irs-discuss-bounces@ietf.org] >> > On Behalf Of Alia Atlas >> > Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 7:23 AM >> > To: Olen Stokes >> > Cc: irs-discuss@ietf.org >> > Subject: Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments >> > >> > I have not specifically heard from application vendors about this. >> > My current plan is that we focus on a Use-Cases draft and define within >> > that some motivating use-cases that we agree are good first targets. Those >> > can drive which subset of functionality we focus on. >> > >> > More use-cases are, of course, quite welcome. Posting them to the >> > mailing list is a good first start. Russ White is starting the general >> > use-cases draft based on the three use-cases that he sent to the list. >> > >> > Alia >> > >> > On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Olen Stokes >> > <ostokes@extremenetworks.com> wrote: >> >> Are there applications vendors out there that already have specific >> >> requirements for what this " subset of the data-models for sub-interfaces" >> >> should be? >> >> >> >> Olen >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >> From: irs-discuss-bounces@ietf.org >> >> [mailto:irs-discuss-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Alia Atlas >> >> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 9:08 AM >> >> To: Shah, Himanshu >> >> Cc: Gert Grammel; irs-discuss@ietf.org; Lenny Giuliano; Thomas Nadeau; >> >> Alia Atlas; Scott Whyte >> >> Subject: Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments >> >> >> >> Hi Himanshu, >> >> >> >> Welcome. I agree that IRS isn't going to spring into being fully >> >> formed - I expect that we'll focus on a subset of the data-models for >> >> sub-interfaces along with an associated protocol (whether that is a new one >> >> or extending an existing one). >> >> >> >> Alia >> >> >> >> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 7:41 AM, Shah, Himanshu <hshah@ciena.com> >> >> wrote: >> >>> Newbie to this discussions list and have read only a last couple of >> >>> mails, so pardon the repeat if somebody has already raised the following as >> >>> a concern. >> >>> >> >>> I realize we are early in IRS architecture definition but one thing to >> >>> keep in mind is the user experience. >> >>> We need to make sure that exposed interface to >> >>> RIB/LFIB/FIB/IGPs/BGP/LSDBs etc etc provide a consistent predictive >> >>> action/response/events even when different implementations has varying >> >>> capabilities. >> >>> >> >>> At the moment it seems like a wild wild west. >> >>> Perhaps IRS can be defined in phases starting with a simpler, limited >> >>> version.. >> >>> >> >>> Thanks, >> >>> himanshu >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> -----Original Message----- >> >>> From: irs-discuss-bounces@ietf.org >> >>> [mailto:irs-discuss-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Alia Atlas >> >>> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 8:41 AM >> >>> To: Scott Whyte >> >>> Cc: Thomas Nadeau; Gert Grammel; Alia Atlas; Lenny Giuliano; >> >>> irs-discuss@ietf.org >> >>> Subject: Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments >> >>> >> >>> ...snip... >> >>> >> >>> On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 9:03 PM, Scott Whyte <swhyte@google.com> >> >>> wrote: >> >>>> On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Alia Atlas <akatlas@gmail.com> >> >>>> wrote: >> >>> >> >>>>> I do think it is important to have the RIB as an arbitration >> >>>>> mechanism >> >>>>> on the device. Russ's suggestion that for the RIB sub-interface, >> >>>>> the >> >>>>> IRS agent might communicate logically to an IRS routing process >> >>>>> gives good semantics and interactions. Obviously, implementations >> >>>>> may differ. >> >>>> >> >>>> As long as the arbitration mechanism is reconfigurable by the >> >>>> operator to whatever precedence they want, I agree. Its not clear >> >>>> to me if various RIB implementations treat all proffered routes the >> >>>> same, nor if they store the same meta-data with all protocol sources. >> >>>> So there needs to be some way for the operator to leverage exposed >> >>>> protocol-specific optimizations, without conflict from the other >> >>>> routing processes, if they so desire. OTOH if it can all be done >> >>>> via static routes, it seems much simpler. :) >> >>> >> >>> Clearly the IRS sub-interface for the RIB needs to introduce/define >> >>> the different precedences; my assumption is that it would be per route with >> >>> a well-defined small set of meta-data. This is part of where having good >> >>> use-cases will help us understand what behavior is necessary. The static >> >>> routes do seem like a simpler case to start with. >> >>> >> >>> Alia >> >>> _______________________________________________ >> >>> irs-discuss mailing list >> >>> irs-discuss@ietf.org >> >>> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/irs-discuss >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> irs-discuss mailing list >> >> irs-discuss@ietf.org >> >> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/irs-discuss >> > _______________________________________________ >> > irs-discuss mailing list >> > irs-discuss@ietf.org >> > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/irs-discuss >> _______________________________________________ >> irs-discuss mailing list >> irs-discuss@ietf.org >> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/irs-discuss > >
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Thomas Nadeau
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Gert Grammel
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Alia Atlas
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Gert Grammel
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Alia Atlas
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Thomas Nadeau
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Lin Han
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Thomas Nadeau
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Thomas Nadeau
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Lin Han
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Alia Atlas
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Lin Han
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Susan Hares
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Robert Raszuk
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Thomas Nadeau
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Gert Grammel
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Scott Whyte
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Susan Hares
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Gert Grammel
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Alia Atlas
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Scott Whyte
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Alia Atlas
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Shah, Himanshu
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Alia Atlas
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Olen Stokes
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Alia Atlas
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments David Lake (dlake)
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Alia Atlas
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Dutta, Pranjal K (Pranjal)
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Alia Atlas
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Dutta, Pranjal K (Pranjal)
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments David Lake (dlake)
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Edward Crabbe
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Edward Crabbe
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Olen Stokes
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Alia Atlas
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Alia Atlas
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments David Lake (dlake)
- Re: [irs-discuss] 答复: 答复: IRS comments Thomas Nadeau
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Alia Atlas
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Edward Crabbe
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Shah, Himanshu
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Edward Crabbe
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- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Edward Crabbe
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Robert Raszuk
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Alia Atlas
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- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Alia Atlas
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- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments UTTARO, JAMES
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Lin Han
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- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Dutta, Pranjal K (Pranjal)
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- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Alia Atlas
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- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Alia Atlas
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Alia Atlas
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- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Dutta, Pranjal K (Pranjal)
- [irs-discuss] 答复: IRS comments Mach Chen
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Alia Atlas
- Re: [irs-discuss] 答复: IRS comments Alia Atlas
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Dutta, Pranjal K (Pranjal)
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Dutta, Pranjal K (Pranjal)
- [irs-discuss] 答复: 答复: IRS comments Mach Chen
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Alia Atlas
- Re: [irs-discuss] 答复: 答复: IRS comments Alia Atlas
- [irs-discuss] 答复: 答复: 答复: IRS comments Mach Chen
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Dutta, Pranjal K (Pranjal)
- Re: [irs-discuss] 答复: 答复: IRS comments Thomas Nadeau
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- Re: [irs-discuss] 答复: 答复: IRS comments Susan Hares
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Edward Crabbe
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Alia Atlas
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Edward Crabbe
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Edward Crabbe
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Alia Atlas
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Dutta, Pranjal K (Pranjal)
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Edward Crabbe
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Dutta, Pranjal K (Pranjal)
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Dutta, Pranjal K (Pranjal)
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Edward Crabbe
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Dutta, Pranjal K (Pranjal)
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Edward Crabbe
- Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments Alia Atlas
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