HI All,
Anybody can explain what is exactly a "driver" and how it should integrate into
the controller and the switch at the same time, I read the announcement in
detail but still not getting it!
Thanks,
Ibrahim
Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 08:33:42 +0200
From: akram.hak...@gmail.com
To: openflow-discuss@lists.stanford.edu
Subject: Re: [openflow-discuss] OpenFlow Driver Contest
HI Bob,
Here is a couple of links that may clarify the concept of OF
driver.
https://www.opennetworking.org/images/stories/downloads/misc/openflow-driver-competition-terms-conditions.pdf
https://www.opennetworking.org/competition
Le 17/05/2013 20:51, Bob Lantz a écrit :
What precisely is an OpenFlow driver?
Is it something like openflowj or libopenflow which sends and
receives OpenFlow messages?
Is it an API/protocol abstraction layer like OpenDaylight's
SAL which might provide a new protocol or API to work with
multiple versions of OpenFlow as well as proprietary vendor
protocols which replace or extend OpenFlow/ofconfig/etc.?
Is it an OpenFlow implementation on top of switching hardware
(or software) like Indigo/Switch Light?
Is it a software switch like Open vSwitch?
On May 16, 2013, at 10:38 PM, David Erickson <deric...@stanford.edu>
wrote:
FYI:
Press
Releases
Open
Networking Foundation Launches Industry’s First
Open-Source "OpenFlow™ Driver" Contest
Competition
to Encourage Implementation, Interoperability of the
OpenFlow Standard
OPEN NETWORKING SUMMIT, Santa Clara,
Calif., April 17, 2013 – The Open Networking Foundation
(ONF), a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting
Software-Defined Networking (SDN), today announced the
industry’s first competition to create an open-source
"OpenFlow™ Driver.” The competition is open to the
worldwide development community to create an
interoperable open-source implementation of the latest
OpenFlow standard. ONF intends the competition to
produce an OpenFlow driver that everyone from network
equipment vendors and ISVs to operators, and larger
open-source projects can use for easy transitions
between different implementations of the OpenFlow
protocol. The winner of the “OpenFlow Driver”
competition will be awarded one grand prize of $50,000.
“ONF is committed to solving market
needs in very practical ways,” said Dan Pitt, executive
director of the Open Networking Foundation. “This
competition is designed to encourage additional SDN
innovation by seeking additional open-sourced technology
solutions. We want this OpenFlow Driver to be of use for
global developers of OpenFlow products, making it easier
for them to build value around and easily update the
OpenFlow protocol component with the latest ONF
specifications as they evolve.”
The competition is open to all
organizations and individuals worldwide interested in
developing an OpenFlow driver that any developer can use
in a controller or switch to maintain compatibility
among switches and controllers. The contest will open
for submissions on April 16, 2013 at 12:00 a.m. Pacific
Daylight Time, and will close on August 15, 2013 at
11:59 p.m. PDT. Judges, who will be selected by the
Foundation, will critique on the following:
· Compliance
with the OpenFlow specification standard
· Correctness
of operation with test harness
· Ease
with which the submission can be integrated into a
controller
· Completeness
of the implementation
· Clarity
of the code and architecture
· Memory
footprint
· Potential
performance and scaling of the architecture
· Portability
of the code
· Modularity
of the code
· Extensibility
and maintainability of the code
· Integration
with multiple programming languages
· Performance
and scalability of the code
The winner will be announced on
September 30, 2013. The winning entry will be provided
under both Apache 2.0 and GPL dual-licenses for maximum
compatibility with both open-source projects and
commercial ones. For more information about the
open-source “OpenFlow Driver” competition and submission
guidelines, please visit www.opennetworking.org/competition.
Competition terms and rules can be found at:
www.opennetworking.org/images/stories/downloads/misc/openflow-driver-competition-terms-conditions.pdf.
About ONF
Launched in 2011 by Deutsche Telekom, Facebook, Google,
Microsoft, Verizon, and Yahoo!, the Open Networking
Foundation (ONF) is a growing nonprofit organization with
more than 90 members whose mission is to advance the
commercialization and use of SDN and the OpenFlow
protocol. ONF will accelerate the delivery and use of SDN
and OpenFlow technologies and standards while fostering a
vibrant market of products, services, applications,
customers, and users. For further details visit the ONF
website at: http://www.opennetworking.org.
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