Re: 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