On 04/15/2015 03:32 AM, Justin Pettit wrote: > >> On Apr 14, 2015, at 7:46 PM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 04:29:11PM -0400, Russell Bryant wrote: >>> Someone just pointed out to me that the name "ovn-nbd" might cause >>> confusion, as "nbd" is already used in the virtualization context for >>> "Network Block Device". >>> >>> https://github.com/qemu/qemu/blob/master/qemu-nbd.c >>> >>> So, what would you think about renaming it? ovn-northbound? >>> ovn-nbound? Something else? >> >> "ovn-northd"? > > Just to add to the noise, what about "ovn-mpd" (Management Plane > Daemon)? I'm worried about focusing too much on the northbound side, > since it's really a translator between the northbound and southbound. > Referring to it as the management plane seems to describe it's > functionality a bit more accurately--but it's arguable that control > plane and management plane definitions have somewhat lost their crisp > definitions with SDN.
That's a good point that "northbound" doesn't really capture it completely. Naming is hard. -- Russell Bryant _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
