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On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 10:02:13AM +0000, Sheng Jiang wrote: > Hi, all, > > We are calling for volunteers to form a design time for ANIMA signaling > design team. The chairs has assigned two editors (Brian Carpenter and Bing > Liu), we are expecting up to 4 main contributors. The charter, initial goal > and target date for the signaling design team is introduced below. It also > available in the design team wiki page. > > http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/anima/trac/wiki/Signaling > > Because of the intended design team work, we expect that the design team > members would need to spend at least half a day per week on this project for > maybe 4..6 month, but it should become less afterwards. We would like to > limit the design team to one year (or shorter if the goals are reached faster > of course). > > As WG chairs we will participate and help of course in the design team > primarily for logistics. In principle, the design team discussions should be > open for all ANIMA participators. People who is interested, but do not have > enough time to commit, could also be able to participate and make > contributions or comments. > > This call is last for one week. It ends May 3rd, Sunday. Please reply before > it if you are interested in the commitment. > > Charter for the signaling design team > > The Anima WG charter states a requirement for discovery and negotiation > mechanisms to enable closed-loop interaction between autonomic nodes. It also > states the goal of developing one or more protocol specifications (or > extensions to existing protocols) to achieve these goals. There is an > existing draft requirements analysis, whose main points include > > - support for any type of network objective parameter; > - discovery must support any topology and bootstrap scenario; > - synchronize parameters with other nodes individually or by flooding; > - negotiate parameters with other nodes; > - always secure. > > A simple TLV format is proposed for the protocol design. Binary or name-based > discovery are proposed as alternative discovery approaches. > > The purpose of the design team is to analyze these issues and recommend a > combined approach to the working group, preferably in the form of one draft > or a small set of coordinated drafts. The proposed approach should be > suitable for use by the Autonomic Control Plane, and for other use cases > including those listed in the Anima WG charter. > > In preparing the recommendation, the design team will verify and update the > existing requirements and understand the relevant use cases. However, > documenting and solving use cases is out of scope for the design team. The > design team is encouraged to develop protocol walkthroughs and an abstract > API as aids to understanding. The design team is not itself expected to > produce code, but ease of implementation is an important consideration. > > The draft(s) should be delivered by the July 2015 IETF (2015-07-06 cutoff > date). > > Initial Goals > > - Validate and update the existing list of requirements > (?http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-carpenter-anima-gdn-protocol#section-2) > against bootstrap and ACP drafts (and optionally against other use case > validation drafts). Target date: end May. > - Recommend how the other milestone components of ANIMA (bootstrap, ACP, > validation drafts) should use the signaling protocol(s). As a side-effect, > critique the proposal on the table > (?https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-carpenter-anima-gdn-protocol#section-3). > > Target date: mid June. > > Best regards, > > Toerless + Sheng _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
