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

Jon Crowcroft <Jon.Crowcroft@cl.cam.ac.uk> Tue, 22 December 2015 17:32 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Stackevo-discuss] [5gangip] [gaia] 5G: It's the Network, Stupid
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> Why does yet another term need to be defined for what has been 
> traditionally called a multi-tenant VPN.

well, slices came out of planetlab, which is not really a spring
chicken (but nor was it a thanksgiving turkey:)
> Dino
> 
> > On Dec 21, 2015, at 3:55 PM, Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On 12/17/2015 9:49 AM, Linda Dunbar wrote:
> >> I strongly support the concept of network slicing for Applications or 
> IoT networks.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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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