WG, Joel and I had an offline discussion and in order to make it more clear, a text clarification should be added to the document in which is stated that this document proposes initial elements for a taxonomy, rather than an initial taxonomy.
Dean > On May 24, 2016, at 11:09 AM, Joel M. Halpern <[email protected]> wrote: > > I had real trouble mapping the taxonomy to the models I am familair with. > > ODL uses YANG models to define the persistent data and interface APIs to any > and all of its internal services. These include controlling anything and > everything the controller does. But the results of the YANG operations are > operations internal to ODL, although many result after processing in actions > applied to the network. > > Yours, > Joel > > On 5/24/16 11:07 AM, Dean Bogdanovic wrote: >> Joel, >> >> >>> On Apr 24, 2016, at 9:31 PM, Joel M. Halpern <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> What is the relationship between this taxonomy and the many models that do >>> not fit its cateogrization? >>> >>> Three examples: >>> Models used in ODL to generate results which may be neither network >>> services nor network elements. They may be in between, or in some other >>> dimension? >> >> When you say generate results, those models generate results based on what? >> Can you give some examples? >> >>> >>> Also, models used to describe things in other aspects of environments, such >>> as Policy models? >> >> Policy will describe an action on device or on a network service, as in >> general policy is defined as a set of match condition(s) followed by an >> action. I would even say that most policies are for network service models. >>> >>> And models of things which are not conventional network elements, such as >>> models of compute platforms, models of applications, even models of control >>> systems. >> >> We haven’t created device as generic network element, but with networking in >> mind. You can view it as generic. Device should always provide what it is >> capable of and it is a superset into which all other models must fit. >> >> Dean >> >>> >>> Yours, >>> Joel >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> netmod mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/netmod >> _______________________________________________ netmod mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/netmod
