On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 10:01:08AM -0800, Teemu Koponen wrote:
> 
> On Mar 9, 2010, at 09:20 , Martin Casado wrote:
> > I absolutely agree, this needs to be fixed in the OpenFlow
> > specification.  Else, it is near impossible to build scalable
> > controllers who maintain consistent state.  The only caveats to
> > consider would be for packet ins (we can maintain the best effort
> > delivery model for datagram forwarding) and potentially flow
> > expirations due to inactivity timers.
> 
> Packet-ins definitely belong to the data plane and can be reliable but

"can be unreliable"?

> flow expirations are definitely a part of control plane operations
> which should be reliable.

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