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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. 

Adding an additional networking project to try to solve this will only
make things work. We need one API. If it needs to grow features, it
needs to grow features - but they should be features that all of
OpenStack users get.

> 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....

+100

> cheers..
> -Sukhdev
> 
> 
>  
> 
>     * 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.
> 
> 
> 
>  
> 
> 
>     Thanks for attention,
>     Ihar
> 
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