[occi-wg] Finished first pass over FeatureMatrix

[Sam Johnston]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 5:16 AM, Randy Bias<randyb at neotactics.com> wrote:
> On Jun 14, 2009, at 6:02 PM, Sam Johnston wrote:
>
>  - VLANs have already been mentioned and can be as simple as having an
> 802.1q attribute on the network resources
>
> Please be careful on this one.  Don't tie to closely to 802.1q, which is
> broken having only a 12-bit field (4096) for VLANs.  It's extremely likely
> that a successor to this or a replacement technology will be used to
> identify VLAN uniqueness.
> Bottom line: whatever you use, make sure it's larger than a 12-bit field.

Any "vlan" field would likely be dependent on the local infrastructure
so if you prefer to use UUIDs then that's up to you as an implementor.
That means the contents would be opaque, except in so far as identical
values means the networks are connected.

Sam