On (03/05/09 10:38), Peter Memishian wrote: > FWIW, the SMF team (and Shapiro in particular) were extremely opposed to > using SMF as a "dumping ground" (his words, IIRC) for networking state. > > There is a lot of history here. As I mentioned earlier in this thread, > there's also a lot that the Fishworks team has learned operationally from > implementing their interfaces-as-instances model. How serious are you > about going in this direction? >
I don't think this should be done in a hurry, or as a patch job (e.g., lets solve the ndd problem first, solving the rest later etc.), and should be done after looking at the history, as well as the needs of the various related projects in this area so that the final picture make sense. Which is why I initially suggested that we may have to use the flat-file method as an interim solution while we sort out the SMF plan for network/physical --Sowmini
