Hi All,

I wanted to share that we had around 20+ people in the NSI tutorial room today, the engagement from the audience was excellent, great questions and the day passed by quite quickly.

Thanks to Jerry for organizing this from front to center and engaging the audience, enabling the hands-on exercises by carrying two suitcases of gear, thanks to Tomohiro and Atsuko for putting dedicated work to make g-lambda run as aggregator, uRA and uPA, thanks to Jeroen for driving the exercise instructions, and OpenNSA mediation layer implementation and Topology discussion/slides and ......

....very special thanks to Vangelis, Henrik and Chin - who put in a lot of work behind the scenes but could not be here.

People are looking forward to using this protocol and we need to get it ready and into their hands ASAP. More detailed news and comments to follow.

Mahalo,

Inder

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 4:33 AM, Jerry Sobieski <jerry@nordu.net> wrote:

Hi all-

I want to propose a "hands on" NSI v2 tutorial for the Techs In Paradise (TIP) 2013 meeting in Honolulu in mid January.

I want to present NSI overall as the primary focus of the tutorial (not just v2 features.). Of course this will include the framework, the protocol, some internals, tools, scripting, topology development, etc. We will use v2 as the base for exercises - v2 should be fairly well developed by then. I want to utilize the AutomatedGOLE Facility for the exercises. I would also expect this will include some NML material as well. As TIP will be attended primarily by network engineers, I will focus the tutorial primarily towards service engineering and deployment issues.

This tutorial will incur a fair amount of organization and prep work (class sizes, program planning, exercise development and testing, etc) I would like to hear of anyone who would be interested in helping to develop and/or present this tutorial. But I don't think it will be a lot of work at the venue - we already have done some of these in smaller settings. I expect the tutorial to be at least 4 hours (half day) - perhaps a full day (6 hours) if we think we can not overwhelm attendees.

Please let me know if you are interested in helping present such a tutorial or if you have ideas/suggestions for how we should frame it - and would be willing to sacrifice a day in Hawaii to teach folks about NSI:-) We have only a short time to get the proposal in, so let me know asap.

Thanks
Jerry