My original intent here was to provide "a name" to something that
aggregated all the routing-instances.
Obviously as many have pointed out, giving it the name of "rib" was a bad
choice.

So we have 2 choices:
- Remove the top-level object in the grammar (rib) completelyŠand instead
start off with routing-instance.
- Rename "rib" (in the grammar) to something better :)


Thanks
Nitin Bahadur





On 7/25/13 4:25 AM, "Acee Lindem" <[email protected]> wrote:

>I agree with Joel.
>
>On 7/24/13 7:43 PM, "Joel M. Halpern" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>This seems a different use of the term RIB than most of the work I am
>>familiar with.  Even without dealing with things like protocol specific
>>RIBs, and BGP's RIB-in and RIB-out, when we deal with VRFs we normally
>>discuss them as using separate RIBs.  This is why the terminology seems
>>upside-down to me.
>>
>>Yours,
>>Joel
>>
>>On 7/24/13 10:21 PM, Nitin Bahadur wrote:
>>> Hi Joel,
>>>
>>>     Maybe this can help clarify what we meant by the RIB.
>>>
>>> The RIB is the totality of all routing-information in a router. The
>>> routing information itself can be sub-divided into multiple objects
>>>called
>>> routing-instances.
>>>
>>> Routing-instances allow us to partition the physical router into
>>>domains
>>> that can operate independently from one another in terms of routing and
>>> forwarding.
>>>
>>>
>>> The rest of that section describes what objects are contained in a RIB,
>>> like routing tables, routes and nexthops.
>>>
>>>
>>> HTH as a starting point.
>>> Nitin Bahadur
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 7/24/13 3:19 PM, "Joel M. Halpern" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Asking for a text proposal is quite reasonable.
>>>> Unfortunately, since my oncern is taht I can not understand what is
>>>> meant by RIB in this definition, it is really ahrd to propose an
>>>> alternative set of definitions that do what the authors wanted.
>>>>
>>>> Yours,
>>>> Joel
>>>>
>>>> On 7/24/13 6:16 PM, Alia Atlas wrote:
>>>>> Joel,
>>>>>
>>>>> I understand your concern.  Do you have text to suggest to Nitin and
>>>>> co-authors?
>>>>> I think part of this is figuring out how to pull out the RIB bits
>>>>> (routing tables) and what traffic they apply to - as well as the
>>>>>policy
>>>>> of how to create associated containers.  Nitin's called that a
>>>>>routing
>>>>> instance...
>>>>>
>>>>> What set of objects would you create?
>>>>>
>>>>> I personally would like to see the info-model described in something
>>>>> other than rBNF - but I view that as a piece that can happen in a
>>>>>future
>>>>> version.
>>>>>
>>>>> Alia
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Joel M. Halpern <[email protected]
>>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>      Looking again at this document, I have to reluctantly say taht I
>>>>>do
>>>>>      not support adoption of this document at this time.
>>>>>
>>>>>      The base definition of RIB is still very unclear.  A RIB is some
>>>>>      collection of routing instances?  First, this seems upside-down
>>>>>to
>>>>>      me. A routing instance would seem to contain a RIB, not the
>>>>>other
>>>>>      way around.  Secondly, what defines, describes, or otherwise
>>>>>helps
>>>>>      decide what set of routing instances go in the same RIB.
>>>>>
>>>>>      If this issue were clarified, I believe the rest of the material
>>>>>is
>>>>>      in sufficiently good shape for working group adoption.
>>>>>
>>>>>      Yours,
>>>>>      Joel M. Halpern
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>      On 7/24/13 5:55 PM, Alia Atlas wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>          Please review draft-nitinb-i2rs-rib-info-__model-01 and
>>>>>comment
>>>>>          on whether
>>>>>          it should be adopted by I2RS.  Detailed technical
>>>>>conversation
>>>>>          is also
>>>>>          most welcome.
>>>>>
>>>>>          Authors: Are you aware of any IPR that applies
>>>>>          to draft-nitinb-i2rs-rib-info-__model-01  Is so, has this
>>>>>IPR
>>>>> been
>>>>>          disclosed in compliance with IETF IPR rules (see RFCs 3979,
>>>>>          4879, 3669
>>>>>          and 5378 for more details).
>>>>>
>>>>>          This WG call for adoption will complete on August 12.
>>>>>
>>>>>          Thanks,
>>>>>          Alia
>>>>>
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