I agree the title needs to be more specific. Dino
On Feb 17, 2014, at 9:59 AM, Michiel Blokzijl (mblokzij) <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > After reading this draft, I recognised the idea of using 5-tuples from the > LISP flowmapping project (I think there was another draft out there on that, > maybe it was https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-barkai-lisp-nfv-02). > > I think it might be a good idea to give this draft a more specific title. > > "SDN" itself is already a big term, and "SDN extensions for LISP" IMHO could, > and probably should, including everything from the Yang datamodel over how > using more direct APIs can be used with LISP xTRs for interesting effects > (see example below) up to how applications might tell LISP something about > how priorities and weights should be set (this could happen both on an IP > address level as well as on a flow level), through sending LISP packets or > otherwise.. or the controlplane/dataplane separation that seems to be used > often as SDN definition.. > > I don't mind us having an "umbrella draft" called "SDN extensions for LISP" > that contains a catalogue of drafts in all these areas though, but I think > it'd be a good idea to keep the technical drafts focused on something more > specific. > > Best regards, > > Michiel > > example of how direct APIs can be used: > In a LISP mobility setup (like the one that ships in the Cisco OSes) it might > be useful to have an API for telling an xTR whether or not a mobile host is > local to this xTR or not. This could then be called by an orchestration > systems plugin, which has access to "ground truth" data about VMs' locations; > currently I believe we detect host presence by looking at traffic and other, > "non-ground-truth data". > > On 17 Feb 2014, at 17:20, Joel M. Halpern <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I would really like to see an answer to how these n-tuple matches are >> supposed to work with prefix matches on various fields. >> What is the match algorithm? >> What assumptions are placed on the mapping system to support these tuples? >> How will the ETR know that the mapping system it is talking to supports this >> capability? In particular, what if the same device is serving as an ETR for >> conventional operations and for these enhanced operations. Does it need to >> be configured to know which map server handles which mode? Does it guess? >> Is the same map server required to handle both? >> >> Yours, >> Joel >> >> On 2/17/14, 11:45 AM, Alberto Rodriguez-Natal wrote: >>> Dear all, >>> >>> We have submitted a new draft, "SDN extensions for LISP", that you can >>> find here: >>> >>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-rodrigueznatal-lisp-sdn-00 >>> >>> We believe that LISP can serve as a southbound protocol for SDN. With >>> this draft we aim to improve vanilla LISP with some extensions to make >>> it even more suitable for SDN scenarios. >>> >>> This draft also complements and provides the foundations for the current >>> LISP NFV draft. >>> >>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-barkai-lisp-nfv-04 >>> >>> Your thoughts and feedback on both drafts are more than welcome. >>> >>> Best, >>> Alberto >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> lisp mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/lisp >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> lisp mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/lisp > > _______________________________________________ > lisp mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/lisp _______________________________________________ lisp mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/lisp
