Hello all Unfortunately, my complete inability to process daylight savings time changes meant I was one hour late for today's TelcoWG meeting so couldn't participate in the discussion of use cases, including the one I submitted on Session Border Control. Thanks to eavesdrop.openstack.org I've been able to catch up.
Just to chip in to the discussion, I agree entirely that we should try to keep the wiki vendor neutral, but at the same time I think use cases based on real world implementations (which could of course be open source rather than from a vendor) are more powerful illustrations for the Dev community of why particular bps are needed than the more abstract presentation of use cases in the ETSI docs, which are aimed at a different purpose. I don't think it's particularly convincing or compelling as a developer to hear that some theoretical implementation of a network function you may have never heard of might need feature X, whereas understanding that there are real products out there that genuinely depend on it brings the requirement home. One of the goals of this group is to help the rest of the OpenStack community understand NFV, and I think concrete beats abstract for that. However, as Steve noted, I did try to draw out general characteristics and relate them to specific gaps and requirements and I think that's important to try to draw as much as possible that is general and vendor-neutral from specific cases. Someone asked about ability to test; I imagine most people in this group will know of the OPNFV initiative, and they are working to put together test frameworks and cases which may include real VNFs, including this specific Perimeta example. regards Calum Calum Loudon Director, Architecture +44 (0)208 366 1177 METASWITCH NETWORKS THE BRAINS OF THE NEW GLOBAL NETWORK www.metaswitch.com _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
