Re: [sfc] Mail regarding draft-quinn-sfc-problem-statement

"Jim Guichard (jguichar)" <jguichar@cisco.com> Wed, 05 March 2014 16:44 UTC

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From: "Jim Guichard (jguichar)" <jguichar@cisco.com>
To: "Henderickx, Wim (Wim)" <wim.henderickx@alcatel-lucent.com>, sfc <sfc@ietf.org>
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Hi Wim,

Could you be more specific in what you would like to see called out in the problem statement and any potential text that you feel is missing? Right now I see that in section 3 (bullet point 4) of the problem statement we have the follow text:

"In addition to sharing of information, the use of metadata addresses several of the issues raised in section 2, most notably the de-coupling of policy from the topology, and the need for per-service classification (and re-classification)".

Does this not capture what you are asking for?

From: <Henderickx>, "Wim (Wim)" <wim.henderickx@alcatel-lucent.com<mailto:wim.henderickx@alcatel-lucent.com>>
Date: Monday, March 3, 2014 at 4:28 AM
To: sfc <sfc@ietf.org<mailto:sfc@ietf.org>>
Subject: [sfc] Mail regarding draft-quinn-sfc-problem-statement

With respect to the problem statement I see a lot of discussions to use the meta-data header to convey information with respect to policies, etc to service fucntions.
If it is a problem we want to tackle in SFC we should also capture this in draft-quinn-sfc-problem-statement.