Hi, All: I want to kick off discussion on ALTO OAM work. One relevant draft is https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-zhang-alto-oam-yang-00.txt Thank authors for this proposed work. I have gone through this draft and have several comments and suggestions:
1. I agree management consideration provide a set of requirements for ALTO data model design and is a good input to this document. I am wondering whether we have other reference work as input such as server discovery, server to server communication, I assume ALTO deployment document can be one of them, related to sever to server communication, what about server discovery? Do we need to configure the ALTO client for server discovery? Do we need to configure ALTO server for server discovery, suppose we use DNS mechanism to discover ALTO server, I think we actually need to configure DNS server? What am I missing? I encourage to take a close look at server discovery aspect, what is needed for ALTO data model? 2. I agree we need to better manage ALTO information resource and data source, Do we need to monitor ALTO information resource lifecycle management, what is missing part is performance measurement aspect, I think we should reference section 16.2.5 to see how to provide ALTO information resource monitoring? Also consider how to integrate generic measurement framework into this data model, one relevant work is draft-xie-alto-lmap-00? 3.For data source aspect, I am wondering whether we should also consider not only where to collect data, but also how to collect data or what kind of data we can collect? e.g., we can use pub sub mechanism to collect the data, suppose we collect the routing data, topology data, performance related data, how these data are translated into network map or cost map? I know we support reactive update and proactive update, but it looks both are poll based which is slow. 4. For Access Control, I feel it is confusing, I don't think access control is about a list of permissions associated with a system resource (object),e.g, data flow with the specific 5 tuples, I think access control is related to security policy such as HTTP authentication, TLS client and server authentication, TLS encryption parameters, this can be used not only in client server communication but also in server to server communication. I am wondering how this can be modelled in the ALTO data model? -Qin (as individual)
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