Hello, Below are some points that were raised during an NSI conference call yesterday. I don't remember the details, but I believe we have had discussions on identifiers and how to relate these to domains. I also believe that this is more of an NML than an NSI issue. Also note that Topology Aggregation/Abstraction is being discussed in the NSI, and I believe that our schema should also account for that. Jeroen.
2. We had a lot of discussion about how topology is shared, and what must be shared for something to work. - Some discussion about how one finds out if a location is available. We discussed that the edgepoints would be described as URIs and that the URI would include information about the network/domain to which the edgepoint belongs. In addition a lookup service has been proposed that will allow a dns-like name to be mapped to its URI. This name might be used in the request and then NSA would use the lookup service to convert it to URI. - talked more about distinction between dataplane paths and control plane paths. They do not need to map to each other, and when finding a global route one may find a set of NSAs that can provide an interconnected dataplane path. The NSAs would then figure out the details of the route. - talked briefly about the distinction between route and topology. We referenced Radek's abstracted topology as example of topology and route being a sequence of edge points and hints about how the edgepoints are interconnected. Guy will try to fill out this distinction as part of the messaging he is working on.
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Jeroen van der Ham