Re: [siesta] Eastbound - Westbound

[Robert Moskowitz <[e-mail]>]

On 11/28/2013 10:20 AM, Diego R. Lopez wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tend to imagine the KMP to the West and the application to the East, just because of the left-to-right order for the elements in a normal exchange.

Kind of what I thought as well.  Great minds think alike!

> And I have employed this similar idea of the "East/West-bound" interface when talking about SDN controller interconnection (actually, I always used "Eastbound" because of the above idea on order)

Sigh.  Thought it would be obvious.  East/West that is.  But that means 
the 'coin' is out there so others will understand what we are refering to.

> Be goode,

Got 4 grandsons (6 yrs, 3 yrs, 2 yrs, 6 mos) here to enjoy and two sets 
of parents to take care of the messy diapers!

>
> On 28 Nov 2013, at 14:03 , Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
>> I *think* I have coined a new terminology that I have clearly stolen from others that talk about a southbound and northbound set of interfaces (e.g. Openflow).
>>
>> A Siesta-like process, like my SSE, sits in user space next to a communicating application, performing the necessary session level security functions.  This SSE process MUST follow all the current Best Practices on maintaining a proper security boundary.  But SSE does not do the key management; next to it is a KMP also sitting in user space.
>>
>> So to the east of SSE is the communicting application that is using its security services.  To the west of SSE is a KMP which actually manages the security state for SSE.
>>
>> So unless someone else can point me to somewhere else where East/West bound interfaces and APIs are named as such...
>>
>> Or is the app to the west and KMP to the east?
>>
>> Sheesh, I got to finish packing and get on the road already!!  ;)'
>>
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