Re: [trill] WG Last Call: draft-ietf-trill-directory-framework-01.txt

[Erik Nordmark <[e-mail]>]

On 11/14/12 1:34 PM, Radia Perlman wrote:
> I've never been fond of "framework" documents, but this is fine for
> describing the problem.  If it's supposed to be complete in some sense
> (whatever that means for a "framework"), it's missing some things that
> people suggested last week, e.g., the ability to be informed of an ACL
> policy, to make, e.g., a hypervisor have an endnode table that has (IP
> address, MAC address, TRILL switch address, only allowed from this set
> of MAC addresses).
> And there might be other information we'd want pushed or pulled, e.g.,
> IPv4 and IPv6 address.
> Is it clear that the framework document doesn't preclude these extra
> things even though I don't think they are in the draft?

The reason for having the separate framework document is to enable the 
WG to discuss and get consensus around the general direction - the set 
of problems to solve and how they fit with current TRILL - without 
getting into details such as which protocol to use to pull information 
out the directory.

> Do we really need a framework document instead of just a single WG
> document on formats and algorithms that perhaps has a few paragraphs to
> explain why a directory is useful?

If there was more WG discussion around the directory assisted approach 
and the discussion indicated a clear direction, then we might be able to 
simplify this into one draft.

Regards,
    Erik


> Radia
>
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Erik Nordmark <[e-mail]
> <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>
>
>     We would really like to she some more explicit indications from WG
>     participants that they have read this document and agree with it.
>
>     Please include any substantial as well as editorial improvements
>     that result from reviewing the document.
>
>         Erik
>
>
>     On 10/25/12 3:55 PM, Donald Eastlake wrote:
>
>         This message begins a TRILL WG two week Last Call on the
>         draft-ietf-trill-directory-__framework draft.
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>         Thanks,
>         Donald
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