<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>I'd like to see if there is interest in discussing vendor plugins for L3 services. The goal is to strive for consistency across vendor plugins/drivers and across service types (if possible/sensible). Some of this could/should apply to reference drivers as well. I'm thinking about these topics (based on questions I've had on VPNaaS - feel free to add to the list):</div><div><br></div><div><ul><li>How to handle vendor specific validation (e.g. say a vendor has restrictions or added capabilities compared to the reference drivers for attributes).</li><li>Providing "client" feedback (e.g. should help and validation be extended to include vendor capabilities or should it be delegated to server reporting?)</li><li>Handling and reporting of errors to the user (e.g. how to indicate to the user that a failure has occurred establishing a IPSec tunnel in device driver?)</li><li>Persistence of vendor specific information (e.g. should new tables be used or should/can existing reference tables be extended?).</li><li>Provider selection for resources (e.g. should we allow --provider attribute on VPN IPSec policies to have vendor specific policies or should we rely on checks at connection creation for policy compatibility?)</li><li>Handling of multiple device drivers per vendor (e.g. have service driver determine which device driver to send RPC requests, or have agent determine what driver requests should go to - say based on the router type)</li></ul><div>If you have an interest, please reply to me and include some days/times that would be good for you, and I'll send out a notice on the ML of the time/date and we can discuss.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Looking to hearing form you!</div><div><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true">
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