Re: [sop] [Sdnp] FW: New Non-WG Mailing List: sop -- Service Orchestration and Desciption for Cloud Services

Thomas Nadeau <tnadeau@lucidvision.com> Thu, 16 February 2012 17:04 UTC

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Subject: Re: [sop] [Sdnp] FW: New Non-WG Mailing List: sop -- Service Orchestration and Desciption for Cloud Services
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On Feb 16, 2012, at 11:47 AM, Michael Hammer wrote:

> For interoperability's sake across private and public clouds from different network providers, we are looking for a protocol to be developed.

	Is this a service provider requirement or one from equipment vendors?

> The analogy we are making is that on-demand provisioning of a voice/video  network circuit between two points is done with SIP.  Without interferring with that effort, and working in parallel, what is the difference with the on-demand provisioning of network/compute/storage over IP?
> 
> Would you also argue that all the SIP work should not have been done in IETF?
> Or that SIP should not have been done because there are open-source projects?

	I am not arguing either way; I was asking the question to the wider audience.

	--Tom


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> Mike
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> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Thomas Nadeau <tnadeau@lucidvision.com> wrote:
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> 	Good point Ping. That is the question in my mind. Does this belong somewhere else like where OpenStack is being done, or otherwise?
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> 	--Tom
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> On Feb 16, 2012, at 11:17 AM, Ping Pan wrote:
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>> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Ashish Dalela (adalela) <adalela@cisco.com> wrote:
>> This isn’t just about the network resources and SOP isn’t only about provisioning network resources. The protocol definition is generalized to support any kind of service – network included.
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>> Be careful. Others have brought up similar proposal before. IETF stands for Internet Engineering TF... Networking is the name of the game. ;-) If not networking, I fear it would be wrong place to do the work.
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>> In SDN, our focus is on networking. Further, we are trying to distance ourselves from the actual DC network fabric design (all vendor-specific so far).
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>> Regards,
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>> Ping
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