Re: [sami] Bringing new work into the IETF

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

Thomas,

Please see my reply inline.  

 
Best regards,
 
Ning So
Verizon Corporate Technology
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-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Narten [mailto:[e-mail]] 
Sent: Monday, August 22, 2011 7:25 AM
To: So, Ning
Cc: David Harrington; 'Yingjie Gu(yingjie)'; [e-mail]
Subject: Re: [sami] Bringing new work into the IETF

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?

[Ning]:  Yes. 

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.

[Ning]:  It is important to have a common agreement on requirements.  I stated my opinion and use case.  I will reach out to the carriers I have been work with in other areas to see if they also have the similar requirements.  If it is true, then IETF has to play a key role in this.  Other SDO such as DMTF will also play a key role.  I hope the use cases and requirements can drive player agreement/participation, especially secondary players.          

Thomas