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Thanks Mohammad for bringing this up. I responded in another thread:
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2014-February/027306.html

~Sumit.

On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 7:27 AM, Mohammad Banikazemi <mb at us.ibm.com> wrote:
> During the last IRC call we started talking about network services and how
> they can be integrated into the group Policy framework.
>
> In particular, with the "redirect" action we need to think how we can
> specify the network services we want to redirect the traffic to/from. There
> has been a substantial work in the area of service chaining and service
> insertion and in the last summit "advanced service" in VMs were discussed.
> I think the first step for us is to find out the status of those efforts and
> then see how we can use them. Here are a few questions that come to mind.
> 1- What is the status of service chaining, service insertion and advanced
> services work?
> 2- How could we use a service chain? Would simply referring to it in the
> action be enough? Are there considerations wrt creating a service chain
> and/or a service VM for use with the Group Policy framework that need to be
> taken into account?
>
> Let's start the discussion on the ML before taking it to the next call.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mohammad