Re: [tosca] [OASIS Issue Tracker] (TOSCA-187) Using TOSCA template to describe the NFV forwarding graph

[Tony Rutkowski <tony@yaanatech.com>]

Excellent proposal.

NFV developments are arguably the most significant
in this sector.  Does OASIS have any other NFV related
efforts underway?

--tony


On 2014-10-12 9:22 PM, OASIS Issues Tracker wrote:
>      [ https://issues.oasis-open.org/browse/TOSCA-187?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=48140#comment-48140 ]
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> Shitao Li commented on TOSCA-187:
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>
> hi Chris lauwers
> First, I agree that "the concepts of "nodes" and "relationships" can be used to model any graph, whether it's a NFV service graph or a network topology graph. "
>
> but if you see my proposal in the document" https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/tosca/document.php?document_id=54169). ",   VNF does not only contain software companent, it can be map to a tier node templates including software application and compute node, and the virtual link is not the same with the network node type either, it defines the connections between several VNFs.
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> > Using TOSCA template to describe the NFV forwarding graph
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> >
> >                  Key: TOSCA-187
> >                  URL: https://issues.oasis-open.org/browse/TOSCA-187
> >              Project: OASIS Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA) TC
> >           Issue Type: New Feature
> >             Reporter: Shitao Li
> >             Assignee: Shitao Li
> >
> > NFV (network function virtualization) will study the gap between NS description in NFV and tosca template.
> > VNFFG(VNF forwarding graph) is one of the gap that may need TOSCA to add some more features to fit the requirements.
>
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