<div dir="ltr">Hi neutron folks,<div><br></div><div>I know that there are patches on gerrit for VPN, FWaaS and L3 services that are leveraging Provider Framework. </div><div>Recently we've been discussing more comprehensive approach that will allow user to choose service capabilities rather than vendor or provider.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I've started creating design draft of Flavor Framework, please take a look: </div><div><a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Neutron/FlavorFramework">https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Neutron/FlavorFramework</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>It also now looks clear to me that the code that introduces providers for vpn, fwaas, l3 is really necessary to move forward to Flavors with one exception: providers should not be exposed to public API.</div>
<div>While provider attribute could be visible to administrator (like segmentation_id of network), it can't be specified on creation and it's not available to a regular user.</div><div><br></div><div>Looking forward to get your feedback.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Eugene.</div></div>