netdev - Re: [ovs-dev] Issues with openflow protocol WAS(RE: [GIT PULL v2] Open vSwitch

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Date:	Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:55:20 -0500
From:	Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
To:	Justin Pettit <jpettit@...ira.com>
Cc:	"Fischer, Anna" <anna.fischer@...com>,
	"dev@...nvswitch.org" <dev@...nvswitch.org>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] Issues with openflow protocol WAS(RE: [GIT PULL v2]
 Open vSwitch

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

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