On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 10:44 -0800, Justin Pettit wrote: > I realize you chair an IETF standard with overlapping goals with > OpenFlow (ForCES), so you may have strong opinions about its design.
Yes, I do have strong opinions not really related to ForCES more towards Linux. If i was to put ForCES in Linux (it is purely user space driven) it would work with zero or small changes. And my non-Linux opinions are driven because I have implemented some of the things you folks are doing and look at them as advise more than anything else. > However, that's not relevant to this discussion, since OpenFlow's design > has nothing to do with the discussion being held here in regards to Open > vSwitch. OpenFlow is just a bullet point--although an important one--in > a large set of features that Open vSwitch provides. Its design is such > that it should be fairly easy to include new control protocols; OpenFlow > is just a library in Open vSwitch. If you have issues with OpenFlow, > those would be better directed to the ONF or one of the OpenFlow mailing > lists. I am not subscribed to any of those - and besides that the openflow hype at the moment is so high on that wave nobody will listen ;-> The only reason i keep bringing up openflow is because your architecture in the minimal evolved from there (the fact you deal with flows and actions and switches). I could stop talking about it if it is offensive ;-> cheers, jamal _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
