Hi,
1st of all - thank you all for the work. That was a great job and quite a success for spreading NSI awareness!

Now, back to work:
This is stuff caught by Michal during implementation (some may repear with yours):
- ConnectionStateType.TERMINATEING - maybe TERMINATING looks better

- GenericAcknowledgmentType - should xxxConfirmed/Failed messages be sent before returning this type, or asynchronously? It could be removed as well

- queryConfirmed, queryFailed on provider interface - breaks consistency

- query on requester interface - breaks consistency

- maybe allow suggestion that either chain or tree reservation model is prefered in reservation request

- reservation name is inconsistence with other method names (should be reserve, or change terminate to termination)

- xxxConfirmed/Failed - all take some common parameters but wrapped into diffrent types, so more writing required instead of having one method to set this field, i.e.:
ReservationFailedRequestType reqFail = new ReservationFailedRequestType();
reqFail.setCorrelationId(correlationId);
reqFail.setReservationFailed(createFailed(conState, messageId, text));
and
ProvisionConfirmedRequestType reqConf = new ProvisionConfirmedRequestType();
reqConf.setCorrelationId(correlationId);
reqConf.setProvisionConfirmed(createConfirmed());
in both cases (and it applies for other methods) ReservationFailedRequestType and ProvisionConfirmedRequestType same fields are carried, one common type would save writing

Now my two cents:

- We experienced from the demo, that sending a provision request just after reservation request, results in simple ack. So in fact we are unaware if the reservation is in auto provision state or not. We just get provisioned status update when reservation start time comes. We can wait 1 minute for that during demo, but if the service is about to start in 4 weeks...

- People were asking for query message, to retrieve the reservation status at all partners and a path.

- People were also interested if the same path will be configured for each provision message - protocol does not specify it, it’s actually up to domain, but in some cases it may be important (see Express scenario later)
- Express was also interested in specyfing path for the reservation. E.g. they have one reservation now, and another in two months - two reservations needs to go the same path. We can't solve it now. Express also experienced issues with any connections they get - they need to tune it before use. Sa they do that about 2 weeks before operations, and check again about 1 day or hours before sending data. This scenario is a real user scenario, which we should discuss. I've invited the guy (apology - I forgot his name, but I will find him at the venue during break) from Express for the March OGF meeting in Oxford so we could discuss it.

Best regards
Radek

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-----Original Message-----

From: nsi-wg-bounces@ogf.org [mailto:nsi-wg-bounces@ogf.org] On Behalf

Of John MacAuley

Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 4:46 PM

To: nsi-plugfest@m.aist.go.jp; nsi-wg@ogf.org WG

Subject: [Nsi-wg] NSI Issues list – Rio de Janeiro Demo

Peoples,

Here are some of the notes I captured.

The reservation XML message contains two element tags both named

“reservation”.  The first is the reservation operation and the second is the

reservation information contents.  This will need to be fixed in the types XSD.

The “providerNSA” and “requesterNSA” elements in the NSI protocol header

caused some confusion.  In the CS document we stated that this would be

populated with the NSnetwork URN as defined in Salt Lake City. However,

when the demo topology schema was created we introduced a new NSA

object.  Some people used the URN of the NSA object in the  “providerNSA”

and “requesterNSA” elements.  We will need to make a definitive statement

as we define the formal NSI topology.  Do we rename the elements to

“providerNSnetwork” and “requesterNSnetwork” and continue using the

NSnetwork URNs, or do we switch over to NSA URN?

Demo topology definition was an issue, but in the end we had something

workable for the demo.  Going forward we need to formalize NSI topology

definition and how it relates to other schema such as DTOX and NML.  I am

going to start working on the topology discovery/exchange problem to get use

moving forward.

Security presented interoperability issues as some people enforced

authentication and authorization while others did not.  Some systems could

not provide the needed credentials, and resulted in some incompatibility.  I

believe we are clear on what we want to implement for NSA-to-NSA security,

but we need to formalize the session security requirements so we can begin

to implement in the NSAs.

Namespace issues – this is not an issue with the protocol specification but with

a few of the less mature SOAP web services toolkits.  They get confused

between the interface and type namespaces for the protocol elements due to

the use of “ref” to reference protocol operation elements from the types XSD

in the interfaces WSDL.

Now that we have had some demo experience with error handling, I think it is

time to start formalizing values in the NsiExceptionType.  I have already

identified ten generic error conditions, and I am sure there are many more.

As a follow up to this item, NSA implementations need to populate the

NsiExceptionType.variables with additional information to help identify the

problem that caused the rejection of the message.  I had done this in

OpenDRAC so any errors returned to other NSA would contain information

formatted as follows:

   <messageId>SVC0001</messageId>

   <text>Invalid or missing parameter</text>

   <variables>

       <Attribute Name="replyTo"

NameFormat="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:attrname-format:basic">

           <AttributeValue xsi:type="xs:string"

xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"

               xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

&lt;null&gt;</AttributeValue>

       </Attribute>

   </variables>

Interface version discovery – I had discussed this with the group previously,

but now that we are moving forward, up issuing NSI schema versions, and

adding new interfaces we will need a mechanism for discovering the

interfaces and versions supported by an NSA.  I will propose something formal

when I get a chance.

John.

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