[openstack-dev] [Neutron][IPv6] Prefix delegation and user facing API thoughts

Sean M. Collins sean at coreitpro.com
Wed Mar 18 14:15:26 UTC 2015


On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 06:45:59AM PDT, John Davidge (jodavidg) wrote:
> In the IPv6 meeting yesterday you mentioned doing this
> with an extension rather than modifying the core API. Could you go into
> some detail about how you see this extension looking?

The easiest, is to evaluate the REST API that is being worked on by the
subnet allocation spec:

http://specs.openstack.org/openstack/neutron-specs/specs/kilo/subnet-allocation.html#rest-api-impact

Since it also solves the issue of the CIDR being a required attribute in
the subnet-create call.

This was part of my comments when reviewing the spec, that we should
rely on the API changes that the subnet allocation spec as the "user
facing" portion of prefix delegation. 

Anthony Veiga and I did some preliminary sketches on what an API
extension that handled prefix delegation would look like nearly a year
ago ( http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2014-March/030581.html),
and I have some additional thoughts on how the REST API would behave,
but at this stage of the game I think the subnet allocation REST API is
a superior spec.

-- 
Sean M. Collins



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