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On 01/25/2017 08:16 AM, Monty Taylor wrote:
> 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.

WORSE - will make things WORSE - not work. Sorry for potentially
completely misleading typo.

>> 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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