Agree.
The term should be general enough to cover all cases.
Luyuan

From: <Black>, David <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Date: Tuesday, April 9, 2013 5:37 PM
To: Sharon <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Cc: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: Re: [nvo3] NVO3 Terminology changes

I believe that BGP is among the possible ways to implement this service.
I think that “directory” is not a good characterization of BGP.
Hence “directory” does not appear to be a good word to use as part of the 
replacement of the “Oracle” term.

Thanks,
--David

From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sharon
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 2:58 PM
To: Larry Kreeger (kreeger)
Cc: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [nvo3] NVO3 Terminology changes

Just a light content comment (summary does reflect the meeting content in my 
view)

Seems perfectly logical that an Overlay will need a method of sharing global 
information per entities "beyond" the Underlay, and that it's "Oracle-Like" 
mechanism e.g you ask it questions and get answers .. even in Delphi the Oracle 
didn't pre guess questions ...

.. Also mapping /IMA seems a perfectly reasonable reduction of what this 
service offers, and distributed directory captures how it offers it - after all 
if there is an Overlay there is also an Underlay - a perfectly functioning 
network to anchor such s mechanism ..

What's not clear is why insisting on BGP if there is a clear claim BGP is not a 
directory oriented protocol ?

Sent from my iPhone 650 492 0794

On Apr 8, 2013, at 6:12 PM, "Larry Kreeger (kreeger)" 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
At the NVO3 WG meeting in Orlando, I brought up some suggestions for 
terminology changes/additions and had an AI to bring this to the list…so here 
goes.  I would prefer to see constructive suggestions in responses.  In other 
words, please suggest something better if you object to these.

1) Oracle -> Information Mapping Authority

Stewart mentioned that he has copyright concerns with using the term "oracle", 
and others have expressed distaste as well.  In 
draft-kreeger-nvo3-hypervisor-nve-cp-01 we replaced the term with "Information 
Mapping Authority" (IMA).  We would like to get consensus on using this new 
term in all WG documents going forward.  In the meeting Linda  expressed a 
concern that IMA might get confused with IMA being confused with the acronym 
for Inverse Multiplexing for ATM, and suggested something like "Directory 
Service" to which David Black replied that she might have trouble convincing 
people that BGP can be categorized as a "Directory Service".

2) VNIC -> Tenant System Interface

The term VNIC is actually used in the framework document, but never defined.  
In kreeger-nvo3-hypervisor-nve-cp-01 we defined a VNIC as "A Virtual NIC that 
connects a Tenant System to a Virtual Network Instance (VNI)."  In NVO3 (myself 
included) we often use VM when we are talking about "Tenant Systems" and talk 
about VMs connecting to a VNI; However, a VM can actually connect to multiple 
VNIs through multiple VNICs…but VNICs are very specific to Virtual Machines.  
If we are to use the more correct "Tenant System" instead of VM, we should use 
a more generic term for the interface on the tenant system itself than VNIC.  
We have suggested using "Tenant System Interface" (TSI) for this, which we 
would like to see formally defined in the Framework document and shown to 
correspond with VAPs within the NVE.

Looking forward to your feedback, Larry





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