[Nsi-wg] Interop testing

[Jerry Sobieski]

Hi all-

The GLIF NSI Interop Plugfest will be using existing servers for the 
tests.  I.e. Since the NSAs will need to run in the wild anyway, there 
was little to be gained by moving them to laptops in Rio.   So, at the 
recent OGF NSI meeting, we elected to allow implementation teams to host 
their NSAs on any server they chose - presumably their development 
servers at their home facilities.

It has been brought to my attention that interoperability testing may be 
constrained by firewalls in the various networks.   I am curious about 
this - is this a broad based problem that the NSAs will generally be 
behind firewalls and that block web services?  (... Don't all of the web 
services run under the HTTP or HTTPS ports?)

Please let me know your particular exposure to this issue.   And since 
some of the implementations need to deal with this, I would ask that 
everyone send me the IP addresses  that your NSAs will be using, and 
identify which ports the server will use.  I will circulate this to the 
implementation teams.   Note:  For interop testing, you will be required 
to run multiple NSAs such that they are verifiably independent instances 
(such as would be the case for two independent domains using the same 
software package for their NSA.)   One way to accomplish this would be 
to use separate hdw servers with separate IP addresses.   Thus, you may 
want to identify several IP addresses that will or might host NSAs.

Also, if you require firewall holes for remote access to reach your 
development facility from Rio, let me know and I will ask the hosts what 
CIDR blocks we'll be using.

A detailed Interop plan with the Challenge details will be forthcoming 
in the next day or so for review and comment.  (I simply need to 
comlplete some details on one of the last Challenge.)

Thanks
Jerry