[occi-wg] OCCI specification document

[Sam Johnston]

On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 4:21 AM, Randy Bias <randyb at neotactics.com> wrote:

> Tying the vlan ID to a 12-bit integer like 802.1q is probably a horrible
> mistake.  Strongly recommend you avoid that.  At the very least it should be
> a 32-bit integer, but more likely a 64-bit integer or even (preferably) a
> string.
> Very few cloud providers of any reasonable size will have less than 4096
> IDs *and* I can guarantee you that there will be non-802.1q workarounds to
> providing L2 networking domains.
>

Thanks Randy. You're right, and that's why we also have vlan-tag (but really
we should probably have schemas so you can specify namespaces like 802.1q,
MPLS labels, etc.)

network.vlan-idInteger (0..4095)802.1q VLAN ID (e.g. 4095)network.vlan-tag
TokenTag based VLANs (e.g. external-dmz)
Sam
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