Interesting! Yeah, we debated about BTL or go direct to OFI. Finally opted for 
the latter as it seemed simpler than the BTL interface.

> On Mar 16, 2016, at 7:29 AM, Howard <hpprit...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Ralph
> 
> I dont know if it's relevant, but I'm working on an ofi BTL so we can use the 
> OSC rdma.
> 
> Howard
> 
> Von meinem iPhone gesendet
> 
> Am 15.03.2016 um 17:21 schrieb Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org 
> <mailto:r...@open-mpi.org>>:
> 
>> Hi folks
>> 
>> We are working on integrating the RML with libfabric so we have access to 
>> both management Ethernet and fabric transports. A first step in enabling 
>> this is to convert the RML framework to multi-select of active components. 
>> The stub functions then scan the components in priority order until one can 
>> perform the requested action (e.g., send a buffer). This will allow us to 
>> simultaneously support both OFI and other components.
>> 
>> While making this change, we also:
>> 
>> * removed the qos framework - this functionality has been moved to another 
>> library that builds on top of the RML
>> 
>> * removed the ftrm component - this was stale, and it wasn’t clear to us how 
>> it would change under the new architecture
>> 
>> We will be adding the new OFI component in a separate PR. This just contains 
>> the change to a multi-select framework.
>> 
>> The PR is here:  https://github.com/open-mpi/ompi/pull/1457 
>> <https://github.com/open-mpi/ompi/pull/1457>
>> 
>> Please feel free to comment and/or make suggestions
>> Ralph
>> 
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