On 8 August 2014 14:55, Kevin Benton <blak...@gmail.com> wrote: > >This is the statement that makes me trip over, > > I don't know what that means. Does it mean that you are so incredibly > shocked by the stupidity of that statement that you fall down? Or does it > mean something else? >
Why would you think that? I trip over the obstacle that prevents me from understanding! If at all, I would blame my stupidity, not the one of the statement :) > > >Policy decision points can be decentralized from the system under > scrutiny, > > Unfortunately they can't in this case where some policy needs to be > enforced between plugins. If we could refactor the communication between > service and core plugins to use the API as well, then we probably could > build this as a middleware. > Assumed I agreed they couldn't, which I find hard to believe, instead of going after the better approach, we stick with the less optimal one? > > On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Armando M. <arma...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 8 August 2014 10:56, Kevin Benton <blak...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> There is an enforcement component to the group policy that allows you to >>> use the current APIs and it's the reason that group policy is integrated >>> into the neutron project. If someone uses the current APIs, the group >>> policy plugin will make sure they don't violate any policy constraints >>> before passing the request into the regular core/service plugins. >>> >> >> This is the statement that makes me trip over, and I don't understand why >> GBP and Neutron Core need to be 'integrated' together as they have. Policy >> decision points can be decentralized from the system under scrutiny, we >> don't need to have one giant monolithic system that does everything; it's >> an architectural decision that would make difficult to achieve >> composability and all the other good -ilities of software systems. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenStack-dev mailing list >> OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org >> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >> >> > > > -- > Kevin Benton > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > >
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