> On May 15, 2016, at 10:17 AM, Matt Riedemann <mrie...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> 
> wrote:
> 
>> On 5/15/2016 10:56 AM, Sean M. Collins wrote:
>> Matt Riedemann wrote:
>>> The nova create-server API allows passing a network id that's prefixed with
>>> br-<uuid> [1]. That was added due to this bug from Folsom [2].
>>> 
>>> I'm wondering if that's still valid? Looking at the network.id data model in
>>> Neutron it doesn't look like it would be [3].
>> 
>> Wow. That bug is awful. Network IDs should be UUIDs and ONLY UUIDs.
>> 
>> Just because some vendor plugin decides that their going to break the
>> Networking API contract and define their own ID scheme,
>> doesn't mean that we should fix it to help them.
>> 
>> That commit shouldn't have been accepted into Nova, and I don't think
>> that we should support anything but a UUID for a network id. Period.
> 
> Yeah, I agree. Remember, this was Folsom, when Neutron was a young and brash 
> Quantum.
> 
> I was just trying to sort out if there is still anything out there in the 
> stadium that relies on this working. If not, I'll microversion it out of 
> support for the Nova API when we add support for auto-allocated-topology.

I agree with Sean.  Even if there is anything that relies on non uuid, it's 
totally fair to break it. 

Doug

> 
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> Thanks,
> 
> Matt Riedemann
> 
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