Re: [sami] Bringing new work into the IETF

[Thomas Narten <[e-mail]>]

Just so I understand...

"So, Ning" <[e-mail]> writes:

> Telecom service provider such as Verizon have significant business
> with enterprises and government agencies.  One significant cloud
> service business for that market in the foreseeable future is to
> host overflow/expansion capacity for the enterprise/government data
> centers.  That means the provider data centers will have to be
> multi-tenant in nature with seamless inter-working with the customer
> data centers.  There are quite a few (I cannot number them)
> hypervisors out there in the market today, and the customers I know
> have all of them (although usually each customer has one or two
> hypervisors only).  Without standardization means the provider data
> center has to have all of the hypervisors in each and every data
> center in order to provide the services, and it also means the
> server/network capacity in the provider data centers are dedicated
> per Hypervisor without capacity sharing.

Are you saying you want interoperabilty between hypervisors? That is,
You want to be able to move a VM from hypervisor type A (i.e, from
vendor A) to a hypervisor of type B (i.e,. from Vendor B), and you'd
like the IETF to develop standards that allow this?

If so, that seems like trying to bite off a pretty big task, well
beyound what most others have been calling for.

It would be good to get clarity as to whether this is a goal and
whether there any of the key players (i.e., hypervisor vendors) agree.

Thomas