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On 01/24/2017 06:42 PM, Sukhdev Kapur wrote:
> Ihar and Kevin,
>
> As our potential future PTLs, I would like to draw your attention to one
> of the critical issue regarding Neutron as "the" networking service in
> OpenStack.
>
> I keep hearing off and on that Neutron is not flexible to address many
> networking use cases and hence a new (or additional) networking project
> is needed. For example, to address the use cases around NFV (rigid
> resource inter-dependencies).  Another one keeps popping up is that it
> is very hard/difficult to add/enhance Neutron API - hence, I picked this
> one goal called out in Ihar's candidacy.
>
> I would really like us to discuss this issue head-on and see what is
> missing in Neutron APIs and what would take to make them extensible so
> that vendors do not run around trying to figure out alternative
> solutions....

Big +1 from me on the above. Please work with the API working group, too!

Best,
-jay

>     * Explore alternative ways to evolve Neutron API.  Piling up
>     extensions and allowing third parties to completely change core
>     resource behaviour is not ideal, and now that api-ref and API
>     consolidation effort in neutron-lib are closer to completion, we may
>     have better answers to outstanding questions than during previous
>     attempts to crack the nut. I would like to restart the discussion some
>     time during Pike.
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>     Thanks for attention,
>     Ihar
>
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