Re: [nmrg] FW: New Version Notification for draft-li-nmrg-intent-classification-00.txt

Hi,

I appreciate this document as background for what is otherwise quite a confusing discussion.

There is one statement that gives me a bit of difficulty, however:

>    Management personnel, such as network Administrators, have complete
>    knowledge of the underlying network.  However, they may not
>    understand the details of the applications and services of Customers
>    and End-Users.

The second sentence is certainly true. However, especially if autonomic networking is a success, I am not sure about the first sentence. As networks get more and more complex, and especially when virtual networks or slices are created dynamically and automatically, the administrators will *not* have complete knowledge of the underlying network. In fact, the intent itself may be the reason for this: the network is configured as a result of the intent, and the human administrators will then be unaware of the details. (They are presumably aware of the physical structure of the network, and the devices installed, but that is only part of the story.)

Regards
   Brian Carpenter

On 24-Apr-19 14:23, Liushucheng (Will Liu) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just did some small modifications and submit this draft as -nmrg, which replaced the old draft-li version.
> 
> As we presented during last NMRG meeting, there are several shared principles between SDOs:
>   -intent should be declarative, using and depending on as few deployment details as possible and focusing on what and not how
>   -intent should provide an easy-to-use interface, and use terminology and concepts familiar to its target audience
>   -intent should be vendor-independent and portable across platforms
>   -the intent framework should be able to detect and resolve conflicts between multiple intents
> 
> This document goal is to discuss and propose how to classify intents, so that  can be a good foundation for future discussion related to intent in IETF scope.
> 
> In the draft we've listed Intent Classification based on :
> -Solutions, Users and their Purpose
> -When to Activate
> -Lifecycle Management Requirements
> -Granularity
> 
> Slides we presented: 
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/104/materials/slides-104-nmrg-sessb-intent-classification-00
>                                  
> Your comments and contributions are welcome!
> 
> Regards, / 致礼! 
> Will LIU  / 刘树成
> 
> 
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> Subject: New Version Notification for draft-li-nmrg-intent-classification-00.txt
> 
> 
> A new version of I-D, draft-li-nmrg-intent-classification-00.txt
> has been successfully submitted by Will (Shucheng) Liu and posted to the IETF repository.
> 
> Name:		draft-li-nmrg-intent-classification
> Revision:	00
> Title:		Intent Classification
> Document date:	2019-04-22
> Group:		Individual Submission
> Pages:		13
> URL:            https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-li-nmrg-intent-classification-00.txt
> Status:         https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-li-nmrg-intent-classification/
> Htmlized:       https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-li-nmrg-intent-classification-00
> Htmlized:       https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-li-nmrg-intent-classification
> 
> 
> Abstract:
>    RFC 7575 defines Intent as an abstract high-level policy used to
>    operate the network. Intent management system includes an interface
>    for users to input requests and an engine to translate the intents
>    into the network configuration and manage their lifecycle. Up to
>    now, there is no commonly agreed definition, interface or model of
>    intent.
> 
>    This document discusses what intent means to different stakeholders,
>    describes different ways to classify intent, and an associated
>    taxonomy of this classification. This is a foundation for discussion
>    intent related topics.
> 
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> 
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