Hi Paul

Yes I would be interested in this as I believe its an area we have not got 
around to so far in Neutron.

/Alan

From: Paul Michali [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: February-03-14 5:20 PM
To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
Subject: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] Interest in discussing vendor plugins for L3 
services?

I'd like to see if there is interest in discussing vendor plugins for L3 
services. The goal is to strive for consistency across vendor plugins/drivers 
and across service types (if possible/sensible). Some of this could/should 
apply to reference drivers as well. I'm thinking about these topics (based on 
questions I've had on VPNaaS - feel free to add to the list):

*         How to handle vendor specific validation (e.g. say a vendor has 
restrictions or added capabilities compared to the reference drivers for 
attributes).
*         Providing "client" feedback (e.g. should help and validation be 
extended to include vendor capabilities or should it be delegated to server 
reporting?)
*         Handling and reporting of errors to the user (e.g. how to indicate to 
the user that a failure has occurred establishing a IPSec tunnel in device 
driver?)
*         Persistence of vendor specific information (e.g. should new tables be 
used or should/can existing reference tables be extended?).
*         Provider selection for resources (e.g. should we allow --provider 
attribute on VPN IPSec policies to have vendor specific policies or should we 
rely on checks at connection creation for policy compatibility?)
*         Handling of multiple device drivers per vendor (e.g. have service 
driver determine which device driver to send RPC requests, or have agent 
determine what driver requests should go to - say based on the router type)
If you have an interest, please reply to me and include some days/times that 
would be good for you, and I'll send out a notice on the ML of the time/date 
and we can discuss.

Looking to hearing form you!

PCM (Paul Michali)

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