On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 08:37:43AM +1300, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> To put it bluntly, we know how to distribute Intent in an ANIMA network
> (GRASP flooding if it's small, GRASP bulk transfer if it's big). We can
> even guess that it's likely to look exactly like JSON, which is trivial to
> represent in GRASP/CBOR. But we have no idea what it actually *is*.
Yes, thats the easy part and we have a draft waiting to be revived when
we can conclude that that part of work is needed. But right now we have
the larger issue of not knowing WHAT would be Intent, or how much of
Intent could really usefully be flooded as opposed to requiring
different distribution mechanism.
> That indeed seems to be a research problem.
I think terminology is more a political issue, but yes, NMRG is the more
appropriate place to solve this.
Cheers
Toerless
> Regards
> Brian
>
> On 2019-02-21 02:57, Toerless Eckert wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 11:19:58AM -0500, Michael Richardson wrote:
> >> I find it slightly confusing that we say that Intent is part of the
> >> framework, but
> >> that we don't work on it without a recharter, but I guess the goal is not
> >> to
> >> forget it, but not to go down a rathole.
> >
> > Wanted to reassert what i hope is the WG agreement about Intent, and we
> > had discussed this since at least IETF102:
> >
> > Intent was given to us (ANIMA) from NMRG as part of the initial chater
> > scope. We did include it into the reference model, but we failed to find
> > enough actionable agreement on what Intent is and what to do about it.
> >
> > We therefore for now would like to punt the next steps of work on Intent
> > back to NMRG and hope we can make enough progress there to later bring
> > it back into ANIMA.
> >
> > I had given a more detailed presentation to this effect at the friday
> > NMRG workshop at IETF101 in Montreal, but somehow i can not find any
> > slides from that friday meeting. Maybe Laurent can comment were that
> > NMRG workshop notes are. There where more really good presentations.
> >
> > I have appended the one i gave to this email.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Toerless
> >
> >
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