Re: [Stackevo-discuss] [gaia] 5G: It's the Network, Stupid

[Theodore V Faber <[e-mail]>]

On 12/21/15, 15:55, "Stackevo-discuss on behalf of Joe Touch"
<[e-mail] on behalf of [e-mail]> wrote:

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>On 12/17/2015 9:49 AM, Linda Dunbar wrote:
>> I strongly support the concept of network slicing for Applications or
>>IoT networks. 
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>FWIW, I do not - in specific, I support the notion of per-service
>overlays, but would not call them "slices".
>
>Slices are an artifact of an OS-view of the network. It's a network
>partitioning model that considers cross-overlay interaction only as a
>violation of the model itself.

Just to defend my tribe a bit, I’d say more of a telco-view of the
network.  Providing isolated strictly defined services - e.g. 3kHz voice
channels - lets you reason about partitioning and service development both
at the cost of maintaining a stranglehold on what gets deployed.  Slices
only enforce their isolation and guarantees if all the equipment has
capabilities and is management appropriate to it.

Yeah, there’s an OS/distributed systems feel to that, but because the
constraints now extend out of a chassis and beyond a LAN, telco analogies
make more sense to me.

I know you (Joe) know that, but I think it’s worth saying to the group
because the more strictly you adhere to a slicing model the more
constraints you put on your equipment and management.  In a small network
- that might be as big as a municipality - those constraints seem more
reasonable to me than in the capital-I Internet.  The cost of enforcing or
even encouraging those constraints across many providers (of equipment and
service) starts to get prohibitive.  It had better be worth it, and to me
there are few cases where it is.

That leaves aside arguments that diversity of equipment and management may
be good for the Internet.  Innovation often comes from letting people
loose in a lightly constrained playground.

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>We should be careful to consider that networks end at network interfaces
>and network interface names, not OS partitions - and OS partitions are
>the baggage that comes with the term "slice".
>
>Joe
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