[Nsi-wg] usage of STPs

[Jeff W. Boote]

Why would this need to be part of a protocol? If a federating network is abstracting a child network's topology, then wouldn't it completely be an implementation issue for that federating entity to keep track of the mapping between the topology it advertises as part of itself and the 'real' topology that is really part of the child. What am I missing?

And I think it is a non-starter to say network id's are specified with no syntax. We need globally unique in this space, and if we are not going to maintain some kind of registry that implies a specific syntax to do that. URNs are already widely accepted. If we want to do something different, we should have very good reasons for that.

jeff

On Apr 13, 2011, at 7:56 AM, Guy Roberts wrote:

> Inder,
>  
> The idea behind the STP address swapping is to allow a federating NSA to re-advertise child NSA’s as its own resources.  This allows a federating NSA to hide the complexity of child Networks and present all resources as part of a single federating Network.
>  
> Guy
>  
> From: Inder Monga [mailto:imonga at es.net] 
> Sent: 13 April 2011 14:51
> To: Guy Roberts
> Cc: nsi-wg at ogf.org; 'Jerry Sobieski'
> Subject: Re: [Nsi-wg] usage of STPs
>  
> Guy
> 
> Just for discussion today - URN has been a representation of STPs that has had a lot of support on the mailing list. We should talk about that option as well.
> 
> The federating NSA and swapping is a new idea - I am not sure that has been discussed before. Please elaborate on what the need for that is?
> 
> Inder
> 
> 
> 
>  
> Guy Roberts
> April 13, 2011 2:20 AM
>  
> 
> 
> Hi Jerry,
>  
> Based on our discussion yesterday I will try and summarize the current thinking on STPs:
>  
>  
> STP is a tuple which is formed as: Network_Id:Local_id
> 
> where:
> 
> Network_id is an string (unformatted - no syntax specified) which
> identifies a group of resources available to a single service.  Each
> Network has an associated NSA, i.e. there is a 1:1 relationship
> between and NSA instance and a Network.  A single stage lookup is
> required to find the address of the NSA from the Network_id.
> 
> Local_id is a string (unformatted - no syntax specified) which
> identifies a local resource (or endpoint).
> 
> 
> A federating NSA has the option (not compulsory) of swapping the
> Network and Local parts of the STP.  Both parts must be swapped (not
> just the network part) this removes the need for Local_id to be
> globally unique.  (this is like MLPS label swapping)
>  
> Does this align with your view?
>  
> Guy
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