Re: 回复:ForCES meeting minutes (draft)

There are two issues here:

1) We have all agreed that it is desirable to be able to pass 
meta-data between FEs.  This is the Fi interface.
2) We can build solutions with FEs from different vendors without 
passing meta-data.  We do not get teh degree of scaling we would 
like, but it does still work.  Assertions that it does not work will 
prevent folks from utilizing the protocol, and therefore prevent us 
from ever getting to work on Fi.  (I am very confident that doing 
this without passing meta-data around is useful because I have over 
the years built several sets of solutions that were distributed 
routers without meta data passing.)

As a background, this issue of inter-FE communication within an NE 
does not depend upon nor is it driven by the integration of legacy 
routers.  It is desirable in and of itself.
Once it is done, the legacy router integration techniques will be 
able to make use of it, likely with no further change to the protocol 
mechanisms.

Yours,
Joel M. Halpern

At 08:03 PM 11/8/2006, Ma.Huaiyuan 50376 wrote:
>Anyway, we have to solve this problem sooner or later, without 
>defining this meta-data properly,
>FEs from different vendors cannot interoperate directly, only FEs 
>from the same vendors can work together.
>
>Now I recognized that many people including Joel, Robert and Avri 
>etc identified this question already,
>Hopfully we can start working on this question soon.