The diagram is a high-level conceptual picture mostly showing
connections from i2rs
to other aspects of the box.  The RIB Manager is, I think, the exception.

Alia

On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Russ White <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I'd find it helpful if we could agree to use Alia's terminology from
>> draft-atlas-i2rs-problem-statement-01, specifically "Policy Database"
>> and "RIB Manager", or clarify what's wrong with that terminology.
>
> IMHO, this terminology isn't specific enough to drive the discussion...
> The policy manager, as shown in problem-statement, controls what kind of
> policy for which elements which is inserted where? What's the difference
> between the connection to the "routing and signaling protocols," box,
> and the "RIB Manager?"
>
> Further, the drawing in problem-statement appears to assume a local
> process called the "I2RS agent," which intercedes between the policy and
> database injection points and the I2RS client/applications. I don't
> think we're going to build a solid data model if we're building a model
> around a local process, with it's own internal database, processes, and
> policy, rather than targeting the ultimate end users of the information
> (the policy and database in each of the independent processes).
>
> :-)
>
> Russ
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