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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear OpenStack Community,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We've been investigating options in/around OpenStack for supporting Service Function Chaining. The networking-sfc project has made significant progress in this space, and we see lots of value in what has been completed. However, when we
looked at the related IETF specs on SFC we concluded that there would be value in further developing an SFC API and related classification functionality to enhance the alignment between the work in the OpenStack community with the standards work. We would
like to propose the SFC part as a potential networking-sfc v2 API, but are open to other options too based on your feedback.
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have submitted a spec to the neutron-specs repo [1], where you can check what our initial thoughts for this new API are, and provide your feedback or questions regarding the same.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Your thoughts on this are deeply appreciated. We are looking forward to having further discussions with everyone interested in giving feedback or establishing collaborations during the OpenStack Summit in Austin.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">[1] <a href="https://review.openstack.org/#/c/308453">https://review.openstack.org/#/c/308453</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Igor & the Intel OpenStack networking team.<o:p></o:p></p>
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