I vote for #1.  
Acee

On 7/28/13 11:15 AM, "Nitin Bahadur" <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>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
>
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>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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