On Sun, 15 Mar 2020 at 13:08, Alex K. <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I was thinking, throughout last design sessions with my customers, those > vendors are really pushing hard for their "SDN something" solutions > adoption. > > SD WAN, SD access, Software defined everything, are all closed standards, > aren't they? I was wondering why will we abandon the model for open > standards, which had served as so well for many-many years? There's no real > world product, be it network-device-white-box or SDx controller, > implementing an open standard, isn't it? > > Sure, 99.99999% of those offerings, are really suitable for enterprises > only and maybe (just maybe) a data center. And while network-as-a-service > is really a thing for service providers only, I was thinking, is it really > a good thing, to base your network, be it enterprise or other, on closed > standard? > > So what do you think? I'm genuinely interested in our community thoughts on > that. Is there is, an open software defined network standard or is it > really a good thing, to sell your soul to a single vendor, for years to > come?
Hi Alex, Nobody has mentioned it yet so I will; this is going through the IETF BESS working group right now, I think this is the kind of thing you're asking about: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-dunbar-idr-sdwan-port-safi-06 Cheers, James. _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
