[Nsi-wg] Notes from call Wed Sept 9

[John Vollbrecht]

We had a small group yesterday
John V
Tomohiro
Jerry Sobieski
Jeroen

Discussion -

We discussed the context and motivation doc I sent out to which  
attempts to include points from Guy and from Jerry/ Jeroen.
Some comments  -
- There is confusion in doc (and in my head) about the difference  
between a network and a network service.  I have calleded what is  
actually a network a network service, and this needs to be fixed.
- cleaning up an understaning of Network, network service, network  
service agent and network service interface is needed

- difference in emerging networks between R&E, Commercial provider and  
home user is in the doc but needs to be reworked.

- we discussed how new paradigm draws from technology in both IP and  
telecom.  It is suggested that this does not belon g in context part  
of doc.

- we discussed relationship to NML group - particularly the role o NML  
in defining Global naming for network instances.

- we agreed that a network is the atomic element in a multi-network  
environnment.  There was a lot of discussion about this - one  
implication is  that the NSI interface does not deal with how a  
network makes something happen.  The NSI interface is only for  
providing services by the network as as whole.

I will modify the context and motivation and send it out to the group  
in the next couple days.

We also discussed the document outline I sent.

We decided that an overview section needed to be inserted between the  
Context and Data-Plane overview sections.  This section would explain  
the overall architecture.  We will use the ESNet doc as input for some  
of this.

I will attempt to put this as well as draft sections on Google Docs in  
the next few days.

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John